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Last fortnight Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins University described a bolometer to top them all. Its sensitive surface is columbium nitride cooled by liquid hydrogen to minus 432° F. At this temperature-close to absolute zero-columbium nitride becomes "superconductive"; its electrical resistance almost vanishes. When a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Seeing with Heat | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

Dr. Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, was the Women's National Press Club's choice for "woman of the year." Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Dr. William M. Leiserson, Mediation Board veteran, now a Johns Hopkins professor, recommended a permanent national mediation board to sit with management and labor before future disputes reached the strike stage. ("But make no mistake-no legislation will be a cureall. . . . Leave this current crisis alone and it will solve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: What Can We Do? | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

With some misgivings, Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock made a long incision and exposed the child's beating heart. Then, for three hours he worked at an operation no one had ever done before. The 15-month-old child on the operating table was a "blue baby" and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Blue Babies | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

* William Osler, a Canadian, was made a baronet in 1911 after leaving Johns Hopkins to become regius professor of medicine at Oxford.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Harvey of the Hopkins | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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