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Forgotten Potato. He has aid. On one program he interviews Astronomer Harlow Shapley of Harvard and Physicist Philip Morrison of Cornell, expertly drawing both men into areas of their field that cannot help but fascinate laymen. Morrison thinks Shapley is hopelessly conservative when he says that there must be 100 million places in the universe that could support life. Morrison thinks there must be 100 million such places right here in our own galaxy. Shapley, for his part, seems to think the earth is a small and forgotten potato anyway. "On this little planet around a run-of-the-mill...
...Founder. The radio window was accidentally opened for the first time in 1932 by Karl Jansky. a Bell Telephone physicist who was studying the crackling static that can be so annoying in radio communications. During quiet periods, when no lightning flashes were disturbing the atmosphere, a faint hiss still sounded in his receiving apparatus. It seemed to rise and fall in strength as the earth turned. Jansky studied the hiss more carefully and found that its maximum strength came four minutes earlier each day. The time interval seemed significant...
...Landau has recovered most of his memory. Childhood recollections returned first, then those of more recent events. He is even beginning to get back to work, once more thinking the abstruse thoughts of the theoretical physicist...
...Threat of War. A total of 42 people (including one woman, Physicist Laura Woods) were present at the squash-court experiment. Last week 27 of the survivors -Fermi and several others are dead-gathered in Washington to observe the 20th birthday of the Atomic Age. At a floodlit ceremony outside the White House, President Kennedy spoke to the group. "This development which has played a significant role in our history and in our lives," he said, "can be either good or bad depending on the use to which it is put. It is the obligation of those who bear positions...
Last week Physicist Edward Teller, the dour genius who led the U.S. in its race to develop the H-bomb ahead of the Russians, reported on the progress of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare, exploring peaceful applications of nuclear explosions. He told of a Plowshare test in Nevada last summer in which a thermonuclear device with a power of 100 kilotons (equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT) was exploded underground, creating in a few seconds a crater 1,200 ft. wide and 320 ft. deep. Such explosions, he said, could be used to make harbors...