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...review a few examples: Dr. Walter Massey, a Black physicist and director of the country's largest energy laboratory, visited the University last year. Dr. Massey lectured on "Science in a Democratic Society: The Participation of Minorities." He also talked at an open dinner on the need for minorities in the scientific fields other than medicine. Very few Black and almost no other "Third World" students showed up at his widely advertised lectures. Participating Black students were embarrassed by the negligible turnout. Last spring (through another department) Black Nobel Prize laureate Sir Arthur Lewis of Princeton delivered five major lectures...
...underscore Andropov's authority, the Soviet news agency TASS announced last week that Nobel Peace Prizewinning Physicist Andrei Sakharov, exiled to the city of Gorki since 1980, would not be allowed to accept an invitation from Vienna University to teach there for a year. The ostensible reason: Sakharov, who helped develop the Soviet hydrogen bomb in the 1950s, knows too many state secrets...
...scholars recommended this year, 40 were called to Harvard for interviews but, as usual, only eight were chosen. As it happens, just one of them is an American: Kevin Lehmann, a chemical physicist about to receive his Ph.D. from Harvard in spectroscopy. (Since 1975, 69% of the scholars have been U.S.-born.) Lehmann and the others will receive free room and board and a stipend of $14,000 annually for three years. The sum is modest, but it is the company they will keep that counts...
...House. Says Nalebuff: "I think there's less pretense here than any place I've been. Nobody's competing with anyone else. You don't have to prove yourself." The exchanges can be irreverent. When M.I.T. Economist and Senior Fellow Robert Solow, 58, advises Theoretical Physicist Paul Ginsparg, 27, that he will soon be "over the hill" for his profession, the junior fellow retorts, "Then I can become an economist...
...closely watched by both friends and foes of nuclear power. If the NRC carries out the threat, it will be the first time that an operating nuclear facility has been ordered closed for lack of an evacuation plan. Said Commissioner John F. Ahearne, a former NRC chairman and a physicist by training: "If we didn't [take action] here, people wouldn't believe we would do it anywhere...