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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Injun is one of those miracles of miniaturization for which Van Allen's lab (TIME cover, May 4, 1959) is famous. It weighs only 40 lbs., but packed inside are instruments to measure particles circulating around the earth in the two Van Allen radiation belts, to count fresh particles arriving from the sun or distant space, and to observe several kinds of light from airglow and auroras. Greb III (155 lbs.) is simpler; it is part of the Navy's long-term effort to study solar radiation that ionizes the atmosphere and effects radio transmission...
...crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired from his job as a lab animal for common-cold researchers because he is too healthy to interest any germs. More is set to training with the cosmonauts...
...Beta Kappa in his junior year, became president of the economics honor society chapter, and this year won the Palfrey Exhibition award for the outstanding scholarship student. He also tended babies, sold junior-executive hats to business school graduates and worked summers at the Sloan-Kettering cancer research lab. Already accepted at Harvard Medical School, he will first use his Fulbright Scholarship to earn a bachelor of philosophy degree in economics at Oxford's Brasenose College. "I want to learn how the National Health Service operates in England," says...
...real experimental lab work begins in the senior year. Honors candidates will register for Chemistry 96, write a thesis, and carry on research in the lab of a post-doctoral fellow. The student's faculty adviser will choose his post-doctoral tutor, with an eye to matching similar interests. No fellow will have more than three tutees working with...
...Students get something resembling tutorial from their lab instructors...