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...giving top scientists the widest latitude, Bell Telephone Laboratories, the $113 million-a-year research arm for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and Western Electric, has struck some of the biggest pay lodes in industrial history. In 1948 Bell Mathematician Claude Shannon, projecting earlier studies by Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Norbert Wiener, published Communication Theory, a complex mathematical scheme for measuring information content in communications, as well as evaluating the performance of systems that transmit words and pictures. The theory opened new horizons in telephone and TV transmission, has already found its way into the Air Force...
...earth's size are much closer to the Army Map Service figure than is indicated by your article. For example, a modern Russian determination gives an equatorial radius of 6,378,245 meters [3443.977 nautical miles -TIME, July 22, 1946]. At a 1953 geodetic meeting, U.S.C.&G.S. Mathematician Erwin Schmid announced a revised determination of the equatorial radius, 6,378,240 meters [3443.974 nautical miles], calculated solely from the latest adjustment of our surveys in the U.S. The new Army Map Service results thus confirm both within 20 meters or about 66 feet...
Bones & Lions. About 200 B.C. the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes ran a geometrical tape measure about the earth by estimating the distance between Syene in southern Egypt and Alexandria in northern Egypt.*Then he measured shadows cast by the sun in both places. This amounts to measuring an arc of the earth's surface and observing the altitude of the sun at both ends. The Army Map Service did the same thing, but the arc that it measured extended (5,777.5 nautical miles) from Finland to the southern end of Africa, more than one-quarter of the earth...
From the Atomic Energy Commission to Hungarian-born Mathematician John Von Neumann, 52, pioneer developer of electronic brains and an AECommissioner, went a tax-free $50,000 for aiding the U.S. atomic energy program-second such award ever given (the first: to the late Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi...
...trade-school courses a student will be allowed to take. He has imported a galaxy of star visiting lecturers-e.g., Historian Arnold Toynbee, Classicist Sir Richard Livingstone, Theologian Martin D'Arcy, S.J., and has given the university an impressive set of stars of its own-e.g., Mathematician Vladimir Seidel, Biochemist Charles E. Brambel, Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic...