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...When Physicist Frederick Seitz, 56, becomes president of Manhattan's Rockefeller University on July 1, he will be taking over a 14-year-old school that has only 138 students. For Seitz, who has been head of the National Academy of Sciences since 1962, it will hardly be a professional step back ward. Rockefeller University not only ranks as one of the world's leading centers of scientific research, but is also a unique educational phenomenon-a graduate university that gives no grades, charges no tuition, confers nothing except doctoral degrees...
Died. Lev Landau, 60, Nobel-prize-wmning Soviet theoretical physicist, whose tenacity to life after an auto accident in Moscow six years ago astonished the medical world; of unspecified causes related to the accident; in Moscow. At the time the fourth Russian to win a Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically...
Historian Irving argues that lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway...
...Lucy Jarvis produces a big documentary-Khrushchev, Picasso, Christiaan Barnard-she taps Newman for his narrative authority and scriptwriting dexterity. About twice a month, Meet the Press summons Newman to play moderator. Speaking Freely, Newman's urbane interview series with the likes of Harold Macmillan, Rudolf Bing and Physicist Hans Bethe, is so bright, lively and informative that 50 Public TV stations across the nation now carry...
Ramsey, two Harvard grad students, and a physicist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee began investigating the charge properties of the neutron early last summer to check time reversal theories...