Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story...
...year the enrollment jumped to 250. Though the courses are on the "graduate level intellectually." they are stripped of all technical jargon, require no specialized background. The whole idea is to make the broad concepts of physics intelligible to the future historian and major historical themes understandable to the physicist...
...reentry, i.e., how to keep a space vehicle (or missile) from burning up due to friction when it hits the relatively dense atmosphere of the earth at 20,000 m.p.h. To study this friction in the laboratory, Dr. Gabriel M. Giannini, a close friend of the late Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, is building a device called a "plasma jet." A stream of inert gas such as argon is passed through a high intensity electric discharge. The resulting heat forces a jet of highly ionized gas out a small hole at enormous speed and temperature (even a small jet will quickly...
Died. Walther Wilhelm Bothe, 66, Prussian-born nuclear physicist who in 1930 produced unexpected radiation by bombarding beryllium with alpha particles, and thus led to the discovery of the neutron, in 1954 won the Nobel Prize for physics for his development and use of the "coincidence method" of measuring time with billionth-of-a-second accuracy; after long illness; in Heidelberg, West Germany...
Walt Disney, who made a mouse enter taining, last week made a mousetrap educational. To illustrate an atomic chain reaction for Our Friend the Atom on ABC's Disneyland, Disney moviemakers crowded 200 mousetraps together, each with a pair of pingpong balls poised on its taut spring. When Physicist Heinz Haber, the show's narrator, tossed a single pingpong ball into the arena of massed traps-so that each sprung trap would fire two balls to spring two more traps-the screen erupted into a chaos of snaps, pings and pongs. The mousetraps were the brightest touch...