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DIED. Gregory Breit, 82, Russian-born physicist who took part in research leading to the first atomic explosion in 1945, and seven years later affirmed theoretical evidence downplaying the possibility that the hydrogen bomb might cause a "runaway" superexplosion; of cancer; in Salem...
...Association of American Publishers on the occasion of the last Moscow International Book Fair had been a literary highlight. It was 1979, and present at the plush Aragvi Restaurant in the Soviet capital was a pleiad of Russian writers and intellectuals, including Andrei Sakharov, the famed nuclear physicist, Dissident Author Anatoli Marchenko, Novelists Vasili Aksyonov and Vladimir Voinovich, and Critics Lev Kopelev and Raisa Orlova. But when the U.S. publishers got ready to give another such gala at the Moscow book fair this month, they knew the party would have to be smaller...
DIED. Hideki Yukawa, 74, Japanese physicist who, while working as a visiting professor at Columbia University in 1949, became his country's first Nobel prizewinner for his theories on subatomic particles, which predicted the existence of the meson, a bit of energized matter believed to hold the atomic nucleus together; of pneumonia; in Kyoto...
Last week the controversy was revived when Donald Heath, a physicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, reported actual evidence of ozone depletion. His study, based on long-term weather satellite observations, indicated a reduction of about 1% in total ozone volume, with most of the losses concentrated at an altitude of about 25 miles. Though Heath acknowledged that his findings could not be tied directly to the chemicals, he pointed out that there is a suggestive link: calculations have shown that if chlorofluorocarbons were, in fact, damaging atmospheric ozone, the greatest harm would probably occur at about...
DIED. James Fisk, 70, physicist who played a leading role in the development of radar and went on to serve as president and chairman of Bell Telephone Laboratories; in Elizabethtown, N.Y. Joining Bell labs, the research division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., as a technician in 1939, Fisk was instrumental in the development of microwave magnetrons for high-frequency radar during World War II. As head of Bell labs from 1959 to 1973, he supervised pioneering research on transistors, superconductive metals and industrial lasers...