Word: physicist
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Died. Irene Joliot-Curie, 58, famed fellow-traveling French physicist, elder daughter of the late great discoverers of radium, Marie and Pierre Curie, winner (with her husband, Jean Frederic Joliot-Curie) of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1935) for their discovery of artificial radioactivity; of leukemia, from handling radioactive materials; in the Curie Hospital, Paris...
Oilmen are already complaining about the shortage of control panel operators for automated refineries; these technicians must be part engineer, physicist, chemist and mechanic. General Electric is training 28,000 employees for automation's better jobs, expects the company's average pay to rise 50% to $8,000 in ten years. Though automation will displace some workers, in the long run the U.S. economic problem will not be unemployment but how to stretch the U.S. labor force enough to keep up with a population growth of 3% yearly and a standard of living that grows much faster. With...
Shortly after dinner one evening last week, Physicist John A. Simpson got an important message from the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi Institute: the alarm bell on the cosmic ray monitoring device in Simpson's office was ringing. When he got to his office, Simpson discovered that cosmic rays were bombarding the earth at a phenomenal rate of 3,000 per minute (normal rate for the area: 200 per minute). The activity, noted by observatories around the world, followed by less than 30 minutes a giant solar flare. It was the strongest indication so far that cosmic...
...them into the air without too long a take-off run. The rockets are expensive, whether they use liquid or solid fuel, so the West German Ministry of Transport asked jet-propulsion experts to evaluate hot-water rockets, a prewar German idea that never got a thorough tryout. Recently, Physicist Werner Michely told a meeting at Freu-denstadt that hot-water booster rockets look promising...
...Last week it was the turn of the supporters. When the arguments are all in, the senate will have to vote on just what sort of university Cambridge is to be. In view of Britain's technological needs, it will be quite a decision to make. Said one physicist: "I'm scared to death. This place can't live unless it can expand." Countered a history don: "At the discussion, we heard a chorus of scientists yelling 'More, more,' holding up national needs to justify expansion. They don't seem to realize that this...