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...that morning of Dec. 2, 1942, Physicist George Weil stood ready to start withdrawing the final control...
Fermi let the reaction run on for 28 minutes, then ordered it stopped. Hungarian-born Physicist Eugene Wigner brought out a bottle of Chianti. Fermi sent out for paper cups. Nobody offered a toast-the moment was too solemn for that. Wrote Physicist Samuel K. Allison, a top Fermi assistant, in a recent article: "All of us in the laboratory knew that with the advent of the chain reaction the world would never be the same again...
...trained physicist indifferent to expensive traditions, he coldly reduces problems to charts and graphs, is described by an aide as "the sort of battle commander who can make a careful assessment of the casualties needed to win and then go off to a peaceful lunch." He has already raised fares on heavily traveled commuter runs and proposed to scuttle lightly traveled ones. He wants to close 24 obsolescent repair shops (which would eliminate 18,000 jobs), also intends to speed up freight schedules and give major companies their own freight cars in what he calls "the livery of their...
Died. Niels Henrik David Bohr, 77 Danish physicist, explorer of the architecture of the atom; of a stroke; in Copenhagen (see SCIENCE...
...humanities. Rhapsodies about the poet as the mathematician's partner in framing the Universe in the image of man's mind are among the cult's offspring. "History, seen in the large, provides no sanction for a conflict between the sciences and the arts," writes a prominent physicist discoursing on the nature of physical reality; and he claims to show even the of the sciences and the humanities to be essentially the same...