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Says Nobel Prizewinner Harold C. Urey: "The difficulties in securing visas for foreign scientists .... threaten to make all satisfactory contact between American and European scientists impossible in the near future." Says Nobelman Arthur H. Compton, Chancellor of Washington University: "One of the greatest assets of the United States in the century past has been the freedom of our scientists -. . . to invite others to bring their ideas personally to us ... In a period when our welfare and safety depend on maintaining . . . leadership, it is of double importance that this freedom in the exchange of ideas be maintained...
Last week Nobelman Lawrence announced that California scientists had found evidence at last. When their highspeed neutrons hit the wall of an ionization chamber, protons bounced back. These were the neutrons themselves, said Lawrence, turned into protons. When a neutron came close to a proton, the proton's electric charge oscillated rapidly between the two. When the neutron passed on, it sometimes carried the charge with it, and was thus a proton...
Practical consequences are not yet in sight, for the wave mechanicians work in a never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...unsure were the physicists who described at Princeton the gigantic and complex machines which are being designed and built as tools for atomic research. Nobelman Ernest 0. Lawrence, developer of the cyclotron, was sure that this and other "accelerators" would soon yield flying particles with energies up to one billion volts. (Present top: 100,000,000.) What the particles themselves are and how they behave, neither Lawrence nor anyone else could describe with certainty...
General Electric's tough-minded,soft-spoken Nobelman, Dr. Irving Langmuir, said last week that Russia might win an atomic race if the world let itself...