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...constant despite the motion of its source, a puzzling result that defied the Newtonian physics of the time, but was later explained by Einstein's equations. Yet was Einstein actually guided toward his epochal achievement by the Michelson-Morley experiment? After combing the Einstein archives at Princeton, Physicist-Historian Gerald Holton concludes that the answer...
...Passionate Physicist Max Born was a physicists' physicist. As head of the University of Gottingen's prestigious Institute of Theoretical Physics in the pre-Nazi era, he was one of the pillars of the flourishing German scientific community. A brilliant teacher, he attracted many of the great names of the atomic era-Oppenheimer, Teller, Fermi-to Göttingen's lecture halls and laboratories. Equally communicative outside the university, he produced a flood of books and essays to unravel the complex new physics for an uncomprehending public. But Born, who died in Göttingen last week...
...companies limit reactor coverage to $82 million. As a result, the Government has to provide an additional $478 million of insurance to persuade utility executives to go atomic. There is no way to eliminate the danger altogether, but it could be minimized by restricting reactors to sparsely populated areas. Physicist Edward Teller also suggests that they could be built underground, a technique already used in Sweden...
...Died. Max Born, 87, nuclear physicist and Nobel laureate, whose scientific concerns reached from the 19th to the 21st centuries (see SCIENCE...
...professional scholars-a historian from Yale and a physicist from the University of Illinois-will be the new members of the Harvard Corporation...