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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...makes the stars glow. But at war's end he found most of his fellow scientists unwilling to work toward the "super." The deadly success of their A-bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had rocked the consciences of the atomic scientists. "The physicists have known sin," said Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Los Alamos' wartime director, and most of his colleagues agreed with...
...years of World War II he worked at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project in 1943, Los Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports a yellow Lincoln convertible, shoots mid-80s golf (he sent President Eisenhower an electronic golf trainer that he had invented), once told his father: "I probably would be a better physicist...
...J. (for nothing) Robert Oppenheimer, 53, . director and professor of physics at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, is "the father of the atomic bomb," i.e., the superb organizer and catalyst who, during World War 11, kept the high-strung, fenced-in Los Alamos colony working with desperate single purpose on the first Abomb. The son of a prosperous German immigrant, he was born in New York City, got his first taste of science at five, when he was visiting his grandfather in Germany and received a gift box of minerals. At Manhattan's Ethical Culture School...
...debut in politics, Patrick promised to serve as "a representative of the total' community." ¶ In Bridgeport, Conn. (pop. 292,000), 79-year-old Socialist Mayor Jasper McLevy was beaten by a slim 161 votes in a try for his 13th consecutive term. The winner: Democrat Samuel J. Tedesco, 42, who accused McLevy of undue conservatism and of standing pat while the city deteriorated.* But even Tedesco had regrets, saying: "I'm sorry it had to be Jasper. I accept the election with mixed feelings. I think the voters saw some of Jasper's qualities...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, emeritus, Pitirim A. Sorokin, professor of Sociology, emeritus, and Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, signed a statement saying "we are facing a danger unlike any danger that has ever existed...