Word: maser
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...antimatter, is a master of pure theory. Virologist John Enders, with his struggles to understand submicroscopic organisms, has given mankind a powerful biological tool to produce immunization against diseases. Physicist Charles Townes, from his theoretical speculations about microwaves, sired one of the most revolutionary devices of the age: the maser, of immense practical application not only on earth but in seeking out the wonders of the universe. Geneticist George Beadle has broken barriers with his experiments with such a seemingly trifling substance as bread mold. Physicist James Van Allen has searched out the radiation belts that surround the earth...
...atomic clock, similar to the one just completed, is being devised by three University scientists. Construction of the new maser is scheduled to begin in November and will be finished in six or seven months, according to Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics...
When the new maser is run alongside the other clock, scientists will be able to test the device's accuracy. The new masers promise to be more than 100,000 times more accurate than the best atomic clock now running...
...first of the new clocks, begun last March, has a unique box that stores high-energy-level hydrogen atoms long enough for them to give off 21 centimeter radiation. The oscillating wave it omits is o' such stability and purity of tone that the maser promises to become a new standard for time and frequency measurement...
...Since visible light can carry vastly more information than radio waves, a beam of maser light accurately trained on Mars could handle all the communications that would ever be needed by a Mars colony...