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...United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa last night awarded its 1958 Christian Gauss Prize to Cedric H. Whitman '38, associate professor of Greek and Latin...
Neuringer figures that a magnetic field of moderate strength (3,000 gauss) should reduce heat transfer by 28%. Greater reduction might be achieved by covering the nose of the re-entry body with a material that ionizes easily. Its ions, mixing with the air, would make it a strongly conducting plasma that would be slowed more effectively by magnetism...
Working together at Harvard, the three scientists shot an enormous current for a few millionths of a second through their copper ring. Inside the ring the magnetism jumped to the unheard-of level of 1,600,000 gauss.* Pressure rose above 1,000,000 lbs. per sq. in., and the metal churned and writhed as the magnetism clawed into it. Such pressure and violent motion may have some bearing on nuclear fusion, and this may be why Furth is now working at the famous hydrogen-bomb laboratory at Livermore, Calif...
...oppose one magnetic force by another magnetic force instead of by the passive strength of metal. Theoretically this can be done by elaborately wound coils, or by copper sheets intersecting in intricate ways. The theory looks so good that the three scientists are promising to deliver many million gauss of magnetic field, and to churn matter in ways that it has never been churned before. One possibility: a magnetic gun that can shoot a small pellet at 100,000 ft. per second. This is nearly three times the speed needed to shoot it wholly free of the earth...
...unit of magnetism. The earth's magnetic field is approximately .3 of one gauss at New York City...