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...University; Chicago-born James Dewey Watson, 34, who worked with Crick and is now a professor of biology at Harvard; and Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, 46, deputy director of the biophysics laboratory at King's College, London. None of them is a doctor of medicine; Wilkins is a physicist, the others are biologists. Between them they will share about...
Before the U.S. exploded a nuclear bomb high over the Pacific early this summer, famed Physicist James Van Allen predicted that the blast would create a globe-girdling belt of dangerous radiation. Last week data from orbiting injun I satellite proved him correct. The new belt is 200 to 500 miles high, just a little closer to earth than the permanent belt named after Discoverer Van Allen. But its intensity is waning and by the and of a year it will be almost undetectable...
Eliot can find small ground for doing so until a Roman Catholic physicist, who detests everything Howard stands for, uncovers new evidence of the pariah's probable innocence and rallies Eliot and a few conscience-nagged colleagues with a cry of "justice for the enemy." As he rounds up the necessary votes for retrial, Eliot encounters the various motives-sly, cynical, stoic, self-serving, selflessly decent-that sway all would-be judges of men. How all-too-human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes...
Died. William R. Blair, 87, retired U.S. Army Signal Corps physicist, whose experiments with the measurement of radio microwaves bouncing off distant objects led in 1937 to his invention of a prototype radar set that could measure the distance and speed of moving ships and airplanes; of a heart attack; in Fair Haven, N.J. The device was kept a military secret until after World War II, when the Army applied for a patent in Blair's name that was finally granted in 1957; the Army, which got free use of the invention (Blair received royalties from all non-Government...
Just how well those U.S. labs accomplish their self-appointed task was spelled out last week when Physicist Sir John Cockcroft delivered a stern lecture to the British Association for the Advancement of Science. "We have a good deal to learn from some American organizations who have a consistent record of success in developing new products by objective basic and applied research," said Sir John, who spoke with the authority of a Nobel Laureate (1951) and an Atoms for Peace Award winner (1961). As an example, he singled out the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York and New Jersey, where...