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Most information about the earth's interior, Mathematician Bullen pointed out, has been gained by recording and measuring the several kinds of waves sent out by earthquakes. As the waves travel through the earth, they are bent and reflected in complicated ways. Some waves move faster than others; some are absorbed entirely. By disentangling the jiggly lines made by instruments recording many earthquakes, seismologists have determined that the earth is formed of concentric layers of different materials, with iron-nickel at the center and stony oxides nearer the surface...
...country of its size, Hungary has an extraordinary record for providing the U.S. with first-rank scientist immigrants. Leo Szilard (key atom-bomb physicist), Edward Teller ("Father of the H-bomb") and the late great Mathematician John von Neumann (an Atomic Energy commissioner) were all Hungarian-born. So when refugees began streaming out of rebellious Hungary last year, the National Academy of Sciences set up an office at Camp Kilmer, N.J. and sent an expeditionary force to Austria to help educated Hungarians find jobs...
...football season over, the House Plan began in earnest. House Plan Unit No. 1 was named Lowell House, after the then President of Harvard; House Plan Unit No. 2 was named Dunster House, after the first President. Coolidge, a mathematician, who bore a rather striking resemblance to President Lowell, would head Lowell House; Greenough, an English professor, would head Dunster. Out of disgust for the group's recent plans, and to avoid any confusing of duties, Coolidge resigned his membership in the Watch and Ward Society the "arbitrators of citizens' morals." The Houses would be Georgian in design, the dining...
Robe, a prominent celestial mathematician, noted that Pluto rides on orbit that fits the orbit a runaway planet would take...
Greenspan is an applied mathematician whose work on surface wave theory and other aspects of hydrodynamics is of value to oceanographers...