Word: kantrowitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sharp first pulse has long been a puzzle. But last week Dr. Arthur Kantrowitz of the Avco Research Laboratory at Everett, Mass, reported that he and his scientists had successfully simulated this solar phenomenon in the laboratory, and offered an explanation...
...when Gold came to Cambridge, Mass, to teach at Harvard, he found that Dr. Kantrowitz and a team of Avco scientists were attempting to prove in the laboratory that his waves can really exist. Their plan was to build a laboratory-scale model of a solar eruption...
...described by Dr. Kantrowitz last week, Avco's miniature sun is a tube 30 inches long filled with very low-pressure gas. When a 4 billion-watt electrical spark from a bank of condensers is discharged across the end of the tube, the magnetic field that surrounds it should expand-so said Gold's theory-into the tube, pushing the gas ahead of it in a small, tame version of a solar shock wave...
...Kantrowitz' indoor waves are only about half as fast as the waves that Professor Gold theorized as coming from the sun. But the difference in speed is easily accounted for by the fact that the gas in the tube is not nearly so thin as interplanetary gas. Such waves may be among the disturbances that instruments in the moon-probe rocket Pioneer IV detected deep in space, 10,000 miles beyond the outermost limit of the Van Allen radiation. Dr. Kantrowitz suspects that his newly discovered waves may prove a serious threat to interplanetary travelers of the future...
...Office of Student Placement will hold a career conference on Engineering and Applied Physics at 8 p.m. tonight in the Eliot House Dining Room. C. Lester Hogan, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, will moderate the discussion between Arthur Kantrowitz, Director of the Avco Research Labs, J. R. Pierce, a director of the Bell Labs, and Thomas L. Phillips, Raytheon Missile System Director...