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...explains, "is like revising our measurement system without consulting the Bureau of Standards." Others on the committee included representatives of instrument companies, and one man who, according to Leet, "never took the equivalent of Nat. Sci. 10." Berkner himself is a fairly well-known scientific administrator; he and nuclear physicist Hans Bethe were the only members of the panel not associated with those who were awarded grants by the panel itself (for "further research...
...other, Leo Szilard, went to his doctors with a bladder cancer; they could not remove it all. Said Szilard then: "I don't expect to live, but I hope to be active for a few months and perhaps a year." Last week Dr. Szilard, 64, physicist turned biologist and crusader for the abolition of war, quietly noted that he has now gone two full years free of cancer symptoms. "I feel fine," he said...
...When Kennedy last fall tentatively made his decision to resume testing, many scientists and members of his own Administration opposed atmospheric testing on grounds that it not only was unnecessary but would stir up resentment abroad. One scientist who argued strongly for tests was Harold Brown, 34, a nuclear physicist and director of the Pentagon's research and engineering department. As Kennedy patiently waited out the argument, the doubters were turned into advocates as the chilling details of the Russian test series became apparent, largely through a detailed report submitted by a panel headed by Cornell...
...some estimates the first Chinese blast will quiver the world's microbarographs in about six months; others give 18 months as a more likely figure. But no one doubts that Red China will crash the nuclear club (U.S., Russia, Britain, France) without much more delay. Said one U.S. physicist: "I'm surprised it hasn't happened yet." A British physicist puts it more broadly: "Everybody knows how to make bombs, even small countries...
...Dear Mum." The case began on an August night in a cornfield off the highway, 20 miles west of London. There Gregsten, a married, 36-year-old research physicist, was parked with his girl friend, Valerie Storie, 23, a lab assistant. Suddenly a gun-toting man forced his way into the car and ordered Gregsten off on a wild drive through the countryside. Finally tiring of the joyride, the assailant had Gregsten pull the car off the A6 highway at a roadside parking area known as Deadman's Hill. There the attacker, startled by a sudden movement from Gregsten...