Word: joliot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irene Joliot-Curie, whose ardent fellow traveling got her kicked off France's Atomic Energy Commission in 1951, was denied membership in the American Chemical Society, which bluntly branded her "an avowed and active...
...overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
...anti-execution sentiment was strongest in France, where the U.S. Government point in the Rosenberg case is not understood by one citizen in 100. (From 1946 to 1950, France had a Communist, Frederic Joliot-Curie, at the head of the atomic research program.) France's non-Communist daily, Combat, even objected to the scheduling of the execution to avoid the Jewish Sabbath. Combat called this "sadistic puritanism." In Paris, a mob tried to storm the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in the Place de la Concorde; a man was shot and a thousand rioters arrested. There were echoes...
...prize catch of the Communist Peoples Congress for Peace. The others were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...
...Rockefeller Foundation's closets revealed some similar skeletons. It gave $1,885,359 to the I.P.R., $1,500 through a "misunderstanding" to Owen Lattimore to attend an I.P.R. conference in New Delhi, $15,684 from 1935 to 1939 to the French Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie for his work in physics, $8,250 to Composer Hanns Eisler, brother of Communist Gerhart Eisler, and $6,050 to Economist Oscar Lange, who later became a diplomatic representative of Communist Poland. In 1948, as a "calculated risk," it also gave the China Aid Council $7,500 to translate Western classics into Chinese...