Word: hydrogenic
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...adviser to the Federal Government, explaining science to the Solons as something that requires, and is worthy of, a basic "optimism of the possible." The most remarkable feat performed by Physicist Edward Teller came when, with a burst of brilliance, he flashed forth with an idea that made the hydrogen bomb not only possible but practical for the U.S.; the details of that idea remain top-secret to this...
...their light and radio waves cannot reach the earth at all. Long before this point is attained, the cosmologists should have evidence enough to decide whether the universe was created in one place at the same time or whether it is being created continuously in the form of virgin hydrogen atoms in the empty spaces between the galaxies...
...space science spectrum is a project to listen for messages sent by intelligent creatures living on planets revolving around other stars than the sun. This project was made plausible by Harvard's Physics Professor Edward Purcell, who was the first to detect the 21-cm. waves from cold hydrogen throughout space. Purcell explains that if intelligent aliens send messages to the earth, they will use a sort of reversed cipher that is deliberately made easy to translate. Their first problem will be to select the proper radio frequency: there is no use picking one at random. Unless listening earthlings know...
Edward Teller, 52, vehemently dislikes his title: "Father of the H-bomb." In the first place, he argues, the big bomb was the creation of many minds. Even more important, the phrase is unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A...
...anyone to do with as they will." It was a spare-time experiment with a borrowed electromagnet and a quarter's worth of paraffin that led to his Nobel-prizewinning "nuclear resonance" system for measuring atomic properties. In his early studies of the 21-cm. radio waves coming from hydrogen clouds in interstellar space, Purcell made do with a hastily devised antenna hung outside his Harvard laboratory. It looked like a horn left over from an ancient phonograph, but it worked...