Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another Chinese physicist at Columbia, Associate Professor Chien-Shiung Wu, went to Washington. Working with a topflight team at the National Bureau of Standards, she arranged an elaborate deepfreeze apparatus to cool radioactive cobalt 60 to 0.01° above absolute zero ( - 273.1° C.). The cobalt nuclei are known to be spinning, and they continue to spin in the deepfreeze, but their random "thermal" motions are reduced almost to nothing by the extreme cold. This accomplished. Dr. Wu and her helpers applied a powerful magnetic field that pointed the cobalt nuclei in one direction as if they were tiny magnets...
...Columbia's physicists, Fridays are "Chinese lunch days," when Professor Lee, a gourmet as well as a physicist, takes a select group to a nearby Chinese restaurant, where he orders special dishes. During a very long Chinese lunch, Dr. Wu's progress in Washington was discussed excitedly. Dr. Lee turned to Associate Professor Leon M. Lederman. who works with Columbia's 385 million-volt cyclotron at Irvington, N.Y. "Why not try the mu mesons?" he asked...
...ATOM Way to Survive Haunting many minds in the Atomic Age is the dark thought that an H-bomb or H-missile attack would be so devastating that survivors, if any, would be reduced to Stone Age primitiveness. Not necessarily, says Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, and sometimes called (he modestly disclaims the tag) "father of the H-bomb." Writing on "The Nature of Nuclear Warfare" in this month's Air Force, Teller argues that a nuclear attack on the U.S. need not be "cataclysmic" and casualties...
Tall, blond, athletic Luis Alvarez, 45, is not only a leading physicist; he is also an inventor, a somewhat Buck Rogersish adventurer and an old-style American success story. After completing his graduate studies in 1936 at the University of Chicago (where he learned to fly an airplane in 3 hours and 15 minutes of instruction), he joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California. In 1940 he migrated to Cambridge, where Massachusetts Institute of Technology was setting up its great Government radar laboratory. There he invented and developed G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar blind-landing system which...
...Berkeley bevatron. Worse still, mu mesons are short-lived, decaying into other particles in two-millionths of a second, so they have little time to act as catalysts. If a longer-lived particle could be found that does the catalytic service, the reaction would look promising indeed. The Russian physicist Artemy Alikhanian claims to have evidence that such a particle exists, but no non-Russian has confirmed his claims...