Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...withered old political melon: the controversial (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates private-power contract with the AEC (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.). Anderson seems to be merely carrying on his longtime personal vendetta with Strauss. Also working against Strauss: scientists who have never forgiven him for crowbarring Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who fought hard against the H-bomb program in 1949, out of the General Advisory Committee chairmanship...
...into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
...announcement caused an embarrassed flurry in high Washington circles. Van Allen learned that, at the suggestion of Physicist Nicholas Christofilos of Livermore Laboratory, the Department of Defense was planning to launch Project Argus, in which three atom bombs would be rocketed above the atmosphere and exploded (TIME, March 30). The high-speed electrons released were expected to be shunted around the earth by the earth's magnetic field. Van Allen's discovery that nature had already provided such electrons was a considerable shock...
Philippe LeCorbeiller, French-born physicist and philosopher of science who has taught here since 1941, will retire from the Faculty on June 30. At Harvard he has taught Natural Sciences 2 as well as graduate courses in electric circuit theory and network systems...
...miles. For five more months, they camped in the open, drifting, drifting. There was the sad rite of shooting the dogs, the terror of being dragged off the ice by vicious 1,100-Ib. sea leopards that could leap from the water and catch a running man. The expedition physicist scrawled in his tattered diary: "A bug on a single molecule of oxygen in a gale of wind would have about the same chance of predicting where he was likely to finish...