Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carbon 14. As that uproar quieted, Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Linus Pauling, 57, head of the chemical labs at the California Institute of Technology, made headlines with his newest point: the most dangerous element of nuclear-test fallout over a period of five to 10,000 years is not strontium 90 but carbon 14, a low-radioactivity but long-lived (half-life: 5,568 years) isotope that from tests already held will, said Pauling, cause 5,000,000 defective children in the next 300 generations. Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, one of the world's top authorities on carbon...
Political Reasons. Indiana University's famed Nobel Prizewinning Geneticist Dr. Hermann Muller, who had signed Pauling's stop-the-tests petition of 9,235 scientists (2,749 from Communist Rumania), staked out his view that while the scientific perils of fallout have been exaggerated, tests ought to be stopped for political reasons-"desirable for the easing of tensions...
...research work and teaching of several professors will be supported by the Trust allotment. Nobel Prize-winner Edward M. Purcell, professor of Physics, Roy O. Greep, Dean of the School of Dental Medicine, and Konrad E. Bloch, Higgins Professor of Biochemistry, are among those receiving grants...
...science-minded teenagers, the elite high school has another justification. Explains Taffel: "Many Nobel Prizewinners do their outstanding work in their early 30s. There's so much to learn that you have to do it early or you won't arrive at the frontiers of research in time. You can't specialize narrowly any more; biology flows into biochemistry and on into mathematics." Jerome Metzner, chairman of the school's biology department, agrees: "When you get a bright youngster and focus his interest early, the kid soars like a comet. He gets a five...
...anywhere near being tested. To avoid "sensation," Heisenberg will not even publicly release his equation until next month. But physicists look for much from Heisenberg, head of the famed Max Planck Institute in Göttingen, and often called Einstein's successor. In 1932 Heisenberg won the Nobel Prize for one of modern physics' key laws, "the uncertainty principle," which holds that subatomic events cannot be observed individually without changing them by the very act of observation...