Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suddenly, the hunt for these tiny particles has taken a dramatic turn. At the American Physical Society's annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this week, Physicist William Fairbank and his colleagues at Stanford University are expected to reveal the results of an experiment that could demonstrate the existence of quarks. Said Columbia University's Gerald Feinberg: "If it's true -and I'm skeptical-it would force us to alter our ideas quite radically...
William Glaberson, an American physicist from Rutgers University said he thinks the Soviet government did not outlaw the meeting because they do not want to jeopardize relations with western nations...
...creating a national energy policy is indeed doable, if for no other reason than that he has dedicated his considerable intellect to it. After all, he has already been the nation's chief nuclear administrator, spymaster and boss of the Pentagon-though he has never been a physicist, a spook or even a soldier...
...problem confronting West German authorities was chilling. A brilliant nuclear physicist with a sure knowledge of how to build the atom bomb was apparently consorting with leftist ideologues and terrorists responsible for such deeds as the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe last June. Was it possible that Dr. Klaus Robert Traube, the absentminded, tousle-haired son of a Jewish dentist who had committed suicide in 1936 rather than go on living under Nazi rule, had passed on secrets to his radical friends...
Alec Nisbett, a physicist and science writer, plainly had ample access to Konrad Lorenz, the ethologist and author of the widely read books King Solomon's Ring and On Aggression. But Nisbett seems to have been overawed by his subject. As a result, he has failed to write a critical study of Lorenz and his work. Instead, he has produced an informative Festschrift...