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...scientists that honored the late Max Planck's 100th birth date, German Physicist Werner Heisenberg, 56, reported that he is prepared to make "a suggestion for the basic equation of matter." In Manhattan, before a meeting of the New York Academy of Sciences, German-born Dr. John Grebe, 58, director of Dow Chemical Co.'s nuclear, research, proposed "a periodic table for fundamental particles" that might help "explain the material of the universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Assumptions of Symmetry | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Charles Anderson Urner, for whom the club is named, for bringing him "out of the dickey-bird stage." Cant has never totaled the birds he has seen on four continents and dozens of Pacific islands, but he was once a member of a party that sighted the only western grebe ever seen in New Jersey. Daniels has a "life list" of some 800 different species. They include about 100 he has seen in Europe and 50 more on a recent trip to Jamaica...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 13, 1953 | 4/13/1953 | See Source »

...Grebe in TIME [May 20] vents holy ire v. the farmers "who were exempted from fighting to raise food for the country." Ed Grebe should talk with the average articulate farmer and hear his side. Almost all farm boys were inducted eventually. Farmers who remained were generally ineligible-disabled or too old. Hired hands who were ineligible almost all deserted the farms to work in the high-pay defense plants. The farmer had to work twice as hard with broken-down machinery which was irreplaceable, not 8 but 14 or 16 hours a day, his sons in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...GREBE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 20, 1946 | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...whole contraption, made largely of magnesium, plastics and glass, will come complete with water pipes, ready for installation. Dr. Grebe believes that deliveries of his omnibus house machine will begin "soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Home Is Where the Gadget Is | 7/16/1945 | See Source »

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