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...other end of the scale of danger, General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir told a Senate committee that the Russians, in ten or 20 years, might be able to push a button and thereby destroy "not only our cities, but every man, woman and child in the United States...
...delegation, headed by Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Nobelman Irving Langmuir, found much of Russia's scientific equipment destroyed by war. Though the Russians and the visiting scientists politely avoided prying into each other's war research, it was obvious that the Russians had been in no position to match the vast U.S. work on the atomic bomb. Yet Physicist Langmuir thought that in less than ten years the U.S.S.R. would certainly be able to carry out a "Manhattan Project...
...world-shaking scientific discovery has yet come out of Soviet Russia. But the visiting scientists noted with surprise that throughout the war Russian scientists, unlike those in the U.S. and Britain, had devoted their main effort to long-range, fundamental research. Langmuir & Co. further discovered that the Russians, through sheer volume of effort, already led the world in some fields of study (e.g., geology and soil science). In Moscow, they found famed Physicist Peter Kapitza presiding over one of the world's best-equipped electronics laboratories-where a photoelectric cell ten times as good...
...visitors were most impressed by the Russians' eagerness to end their long scientific isolation. Every advanced science student is now required to learn English, and top Russian officials proposed an immediate exchange of students and professors with the U.S. and Britain. Predicted Physicist Langmuir: "The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. will lead the world in science...
...Academician Sir Robert Robinson. England would have sent more but for Winston Churchill's last-minute refusal to grant exit visas to some ten men engaged in war research. From the U.S. came 16, including Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Chemist Irving Langmuir...