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With his disheveled hair and dark-rimmed spectacles, Wojnilower looks more like a physicist than a financier. An intensely private person, he shuns speech-making and generally reserves his opinions for clients and superiors at First Boston. Says he: "I play something of a court jester role here. Anyone else who told the truth would lose his head for sure...
...Kathryn McCarthy, the former provost of Tufts, a distinguished physicist and a member of the New England Rhodes Scholarship Selection Committee, asked Ms. Jacobs if she had participated in the March...
...mind the first flight of Orville and Wilbur Wright at Kitty Hawk, Lindbergh's lone-eagle crossing of the Atlantic, even the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, which would turn a land of remote frontiers into a nation. Princeton's prophet of space colonization, Physicist Gerard O'Neill, saw the flight as a first step toward establishing mining facilities on the moon. Still others spoke of the shuttle's potential role in scientific research, in space manufacturing, in the eventual tapping of solar energy in orbit, in controlling the new "high ground...
...From there, astronomers should be able to see out 14 billion light-years (seven times farther than they can see using the biggest earthbound reflectors), expanding the volume of the known universe about 350-fold and bringing them very close to what is presumed to be its "edge." Says Physicist Robert Jastrow (God and the Astronomers): "We don't know what we'll find out there, whose hand we'll see at work." Also in 1985, the shuttle is slated to get the Galileo spacecraft on its way: an unmanned package of instruments that will drop...
Like most of the other scientists who had spent four years of their lives working on the A-bomb, Oppenheimer must have been relieved when the bomb actually exploded. As his brother, also a physicist, pointed out, the first reaction of most of the scientists was, "Thank God it worked." But though he may have, as he recalled in an interview years later, looked on in silent admiration when the bomb exploded, he was hardly silent in the years that followed...