Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ideas into Gold. R-W's type of success can be found again and again in the industry. Among the new successes: ¶Varian Associates was founded in 1948 in Palo Alto, Calif, by Physicist Russell and Engineer Sigurd Varian as a company that had "nothing to offer but advanced technology and ideas." Today, as the biggest producer of the klystron tube, which guides Air Force missiles and irradiates Army food, Varian has grown from seven employees to 1,230, did an annual business of $11 million in 1956. Estimated 1957 sales: up another 27% to $14 million...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 will deliver the fifth of his lectures on "The Hope of Order" at Sanders Theater today at 4:30 p.m. The noted physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, is the William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology...
...first time, the physicist's lecture hit at a level inaccessible to many members of the audience. Dealing with the problems that arise in the formulation of concepts at the base of atomic physics, he seemed to some to deal with material above the scientific level of the average layman, and below that of people who have been trained in science...
...Berkeley Bevatron and the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. N.Y. It contains some new gadgets, but uses no novel principle. Most notable thing about it is its enormous size. Its ring of magnets is 184 ft. in diameter and contains 36,000 tons of steel. According to U.S. Physicist Luis Alvarez, who visited Dubna last spring, Russian physicists joke a little about the amount of steel. The Iron Curtain, they told him, was melted down to provide...
...founded 1930) and a board chairman since 1942; after long illness; in Manhattan. Attorney and corporation executive (Pershing Square Building Corp., Consolidated Cigar Corp.), Maass was instrumental in bringing the late Albert Einstein onto the faculty in 1933, presided over the October 1954 meeting which unanimously re-elected Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director after he had been declared a security risk...