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...tattooed on his chest in invisible ink," says one Harvard professor, echoing the conventional wisdom about Martin's institutional loyalty. The physicist not only attended the College, but also got his Ph.D. here, and has been at Harvard almost his entire academic life...
Bethe, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist from Cornell University, argued that the development of space weapons would only exacerbate the arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union...
...limits, it is almost impossible to practice. Supporters desperately point to the referendum's provision exempting "basic research, the primary purpose of which is not to work towards the development of nuclear weapons." But how a local investigator will differentiate between basic and specific research is unclear. Is a physicist developing a chain reaction equation that could increase the power of a nuclear explosion a criminal? Even if he isn't, will he be subject to a thorough police investigation? Representatives of Mobilization for Survival insist that only researchers with classified Defense Department contracts will be scrutinized...
Chandrasekhar, who got word of the award on his birthday, is a slight, 5-ft. 6-in. scholar with a shy manner, a preference for black suits and a love of Tolstoy, Mozart and Beethoven. Born in Lahore, then part of India, to a prominent Hindu family (his physicist uncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, won a Nobel in 1930), Chandra, as he is called by physicists everywhere, began the work for which he was cited more than a half-century ago. In 1930, when he was only 19 years old, he whiled away the long shipboard hours...
Another honoree who overcame racial prejudices was Dr. Chine-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist from Columbia University who came to the United States from China in 1936 Wu said. "A scientist's life is really wonderful...