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...balloon is the only vehicle large enough to transport the 40-inch in diameter telescope. Robert W. Noyes, physicist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory said. In addition, a balloon can stay up longer--10-12 hours of observation is planned--it carries more instruments, and is cheaper...
...same time, one deeply committed activist in the cause of Soviet Jews-and of freedom in Russia-was being subjected to increasingly ominous pressure. Physicist Valery Chalidze, a leader of the unauthorized "Human Rights Committee," has twice been summoned by the KGB and threatened with "repression"-secret-police jargon for imprisonment. This action, in the wake of the arrest of Dissident Pyotr Yakir (TIME, July 3), suggested that the next target would be the leading member of the committee, the world-famous nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov...
Into this tradition was born Robert James Fischer. His father was a physicist from Berlin, his mother a nurse born in Switzerland and raised in the U.S. They were divorced when Bobby was two. When his mother went to work, Bobby was left in the care of his older sister Joan. She kept him amused by playing board games with him in their three-room walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When Monopoly and Parcheesi palled, Joan bought a cheap plastic chess set at the local candy store. She was eleven at the time and Bobby was six, and together they...
...work on fat metabolism. Another Nobel Prize went to Manfred Eigen of the Institute of Physical Chemistry for his success in measuring chemical reactions that last no more than a billionth of a second. More recently the society has branched into less familiar terrain. Under the direction of Physicist Carl Friednch von Weizsäcker, it has set up the new Institute for the Study of Life in the Technological-Scientific World. Its mission is to investigate pressing contemporary issues including the role of science and the problems of developing countries...
Such criticism may dwindle in the future. Last month the society's senate elected a new president, Physicist Reimar Lüst, a modest young (49) scientist whose easygoing and informal manner should fit in with the Young Turks ambitions to speed the democratization process. A U-boat engineering officer during World War II, Lüst was captured after his submarine was hit. Sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Texas, he began attending courses given by some P.O.W. professors. Lüst soon developed a liking for physics, which he continued to study in both Germany...