Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Radiation Laboratory, has been called the "prize wild-idea man." Some prized wild ideas: isolation of tritium (used in thermonuclear weapons) and, with a graduate student, the discovery of helium 3 (1939); the universally used radar-operated Ground-Controlled Approach System for blind-flying aircraft (1942); a method of producing nuclear reaction without the presence of uranium or million-degree heat (1956). Born in San Francisco, the son of onetime Teacher and Mayo Clinic Physician (and now medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite professor, from chemistry to physics...
Isidor Isaac Rabi, 59, shy, good-humored Columbia University professor of physics is chairman of the President's Scientific Advisory Committee. The Austrian-born son of a tailor, he was brought to the U.S. as an infant. In 1944 he won the Nobel Prize for discovering a new method of measuring and studying the magnetic properties of the atomic nucleus. "Some people," he says, "turn to science as a career to make a living, others because somebody they admire tremendously is a scientist. And then there are those who just can't help it-like me. I knocked...
...versatile isotopes to perform. Tiremakers long sought a way to control the amount of rubber that goes onto each strand of tire cord. Recently, Industrial Nucleonics Corp. of Columbus, Ohio, one of the top sellers of isotope measuring equipment (1956 sales: $5,000,000), developed a foolproof method. As the tire cord goes through the rubberizing machine, it passes between a capsule of strontium 90 and a radiation counter. If the thickness varies, the detector's reading changes, automatically sets off machinery to adjust the rubber flow. Today all the major rubber companies use these "AccuRay" gauges...
...reporter if he is aware that there is a moral issue in the attitude of the Anti-Vivisection Society, which he lampoons. Does he know of the reflections on this subject by Albert Schweitzer in Reverence for Life or by Carl von Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical slantings from Hinduism on the dangers of the development of power by the exploitation of lower by higher intelligences or in the regarding...
Concerning your Oct. 21 Education story "What Makes Them Good?": I consider the method of selection used in Robert Marschner's list of outstanding secondary schools to be completely inadequate and unfair. To use the absolute number of 20 finalists in the Merit Scholarship test as the sole basis is to be unfair to those high schools whose academic achievement is high but whose enrollment is low. If such a list is to be valid, it certainly should be compiled on a percentage basis...