Word: hertz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...armies raced toward Berlin in the spring of 1945, control of German territory was not the only big prize. Quietly but fiercely they competed with each other for the leaders of German science. One of those who disappeared into the silence of Soviet hospitality was Nobel Prizewinner Physicist Gustav Hertz. A few years later his colleagues heard that he had died in Russia...
Last week the New York Times announced that the reports of Dr. Hertz's death were false. Scandinavian and West German scientists, said the Times, have established contact with 64-year-old Physicist Hertz. They have letters postmarked Moscow, have seen pictures in which their old friend looks thinner but healthy...
Louis Del Duca 3L, a graduate of Temple, is the new president. Del Duca moves up from the position of first vice president which he held this year. James E. Ryder 2L and Martin J. Hertz 2L were were elected to the posts of first and second vice president, respectively. Sheldon M. Goodman 3L was voted treasurer...
...RICHARD HERTZ Claremont, Calif...
...great invention. It was rather a period of harvest. Most of the modern objects which are used so lavishly today had beginnings before 1900. Internal combustion engines, which made automobiles and airplanes inevitable, were running in the 1880's. Radio waves were discovered by Hertz in 1887, and the first paid radiogram was sent from the Isle of Wight in 1898. The first public telephone exchange was opened in New Haven, Conn, in 1878. The "germ theory" of disease dates from the 1860s. It is hard to find an important technological element in modern life that did not have...