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...chilly morning last week, Vincent J. Schaefer of General Electric climbed into a light plane at Schenectady's airport. While his boss, Nobel Prizewinner Irving Langmuir, watched from a control tower, Schaefer told the pilot to fly to a cloud 50 miles away...
American Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "Atomic Energy Who Should Control It?" Harold Stassen, Physicist Irving Langmuir, Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and J. Parnell Thomas...
General Electric's quiet-voiced Irving Langmuir said that secrecy would not save the U.S. He pointed out that England and Russia had already announced atomic programs, that France, Switzerland and Sweden also have the required technical skills. Overemphasis on secrecy, he added, had backfired even before Hiroshima. The military's pointed refusal last June to let U.S. and British atomic scientists attend a scientific meeting in Moscow should have tipped the Russians off. Langmuir may credit the Russians with more perspicacity than they had. There are signs that news of the bomb surprised them...
General Electric's tough-minded,soft-spoken Nobelman, Dr. Irving Langmuir, said last week that Russia might win an atomic race if the world let itself...
...physics; and Dr. Peter Kapitza, who visited Moscow in 1935, after 13 years at Britain's Cambridge, and was refused permission to leave when he made ready to return. Tweedy, pipe-smoking Peter Kapitza has been there ever since, and he said he was perfectly happy when Dr. Langmuir saw him in Moscow last June...