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...only real academic in the group--except possibly for Mockler, who started out as a teacher at the Business School and has said he may be interested at some point in returning to it--is Charles P. Slichter '45, a highly regarded physicist at the University of Illinois's Center for Advanced Study and the author of Principles of Magnetic Resonance, published in 1963. He also has written many articles on topics like electron spin resonance, solid state physics and chemical physics...
TIME has learned that among the documents that Bonner gave U.S. officials during a meeting in Moscow in April was a third message from Sakharov requesting temporary refuge for his wife in the embassy. The dissident physicist apparently feared that the KGB would take actions against Bonner if he went on a hunger strike. He also wanted her to have access to American medical care...
There can be no argument that to be a physician requires a working knowledge of the sciences which are basic to medicine. This does not imply that to be a physician one must be a biological scientist, anymore than an engineer must be a pure mathematician and a theoretical physicist. On the other hand, it does not follow that a well-trained scientist cannot be a good physician. The practice of medicine, if nothing else, is pluralistic and can accommodate people with wide variety of skills, knowledge and understanding. There are limits to the science which needs to be known...
RECUPERATING. Andrei Sakharov, 62, dissident Soviet physicist and Nobel Peace prizewinning human rights activist; from reportedly successful surgery to remove a blood clot in his leg after an attack of thrombophlebitis, from which he has suffered for several years; in Gorky, where he was exiled four years...
...that such a promise is immediately apparent in Weapons and Hope. For much of the book, Dyson, an English-born physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, rambles through a grabbag of topics. Dyson recounts the activities of his uncle in the trenches during the First World War, his own experience working with the RAF Bomber Command in World War II, and his encounter with an American military officer who squirmed with excitement when discussing the course of a nuclear...