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Mindful that the French had set off an atomic blast in the Sahara a year ago, Dr. Kettlewell last spring collected early-arriving migratory moths and examined them under a Geiger counter. One specimen of Nomophila noctuella, a pale buff moth with a one-inch wingspread, showed a suspiciously high count. He pressed it on X-ray film and found that the radiation was coming not from the moth as a whole but from a single small spot in the thorax...
CASANOVA'S CHINESE RESTAURANT, by Anthony Powell. The fifth installment of The Music of Time, in which Britain's most delicate and coruscating social Geiger counter moves through the class shambles of the late...
...King was working in paint chemistry at the Naval Research Laboratory when a colleague asked him why the lab's Geiger counters had recently been clicking faster after rainstorms. King collected rain water from the roof of N.R.L.'s building, found that it was slightly radioactive, suspected that the activity came from U.S. A-bomb tests in the Pacific about six months before. To make sure, he needed rain water from just after the A-bomb tests-and that meant getting some that could be certified as almost six months old. A Navy commander recalled that...
...earth's cloud cover; a svelte medicine man of an Explorer I, using "a thermometer and stethoscope, since it measures temperature and cosmic rays"; a buxom flapper of a Pioneer V, absorbing a last swift kick from its booster rocket; an Explorer VII counting cosmic rays with a Geiger counter; and a loudmouthed, loudspeaker-toting Transit iB, sending back navigational signals. All of the other satellites shown on the cover have, in Artzy's unique style, a combination of in-detail realism and way-out imagination...
...Charles Percy) Snow is a Geiger-counter Galsworthy. Himself trained in science (chemistry and physics). Novelist Snow set out two decades ago on a vast and ambitious project: a cycle of eleven novels, titled Strangers and Brothers, intended to probe the broad upper middle class that dominates science, education and much of government in the age of the Scientific Revolution. In his own way, Snow is writing about Organization Man. His hero is the 20th century manager, science-minded, a born administrator and as typical of his era (in the words of one British critic) "as tyrants were of Renaissance...