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...scientists started to trap neutrinos, other scientists spun far-ranging theories about the little particles. Neutrinos may be small and shy, says Chinese-born Dr. Hong-Yee Chiu of Yale, but they are vastly important. At last week's Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society, Physicist Chiu explained that neutrinos may well be the basic stuff of the universe...
Neutrinos, says Dr. Chiu, are the ashes of nuclear fires. According to Italian-born Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo,* they may also be the original stuff of the universe. Somehow they turned into stars. But as the stars burned, they turned into neutrinos again. Ashes to ashes, says the Book of Common Prayer. "Neutrinos to neutrinos," says Dr. Chiu...
...Today Worms and all of Germany (West and East) are as Hitler intended, largely judenfrei-free of Jews. Before the advent of the Third Reich, Jews numbered 760,000 in a nation of 66 million; German life and art were immeasurably enriched by the work of such Jews as Physicist Albert Einstein and Composer Kurt Weill. Thousands fled the Nazis; thousands more died in the concentration camps. There are now no more than 30,000 Jews-including some 5,000 who escaped from Eastern Europe-among West Germany's 55 million people, and only 1,900 among East Germany...
Writing in Izvestia, Russia's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Igor E. Tamm recently criticized this policy as no way to nurture real talent. Tamm fears that potential scientists are being lost to factory work, argues that competitive exams should determine university admission rather than the widely used standard of "political consciousness." Tamm also envies the freedom of U.S. professors to conduct pure research, contrasts it with the Soviet system. Russian professors carry a teaching load of 20 hours a week, far more than U.S. professors. The Russians thus fall behind their fields, says Tamm, and cannot teach as well...
Radar Wrinkles. The most promising newcomer among aircraft navigation instruments is Doppler radar. The name honors the 19th century Physicist Christian Doppler, who discovered that sound waves transmitted from a moving object change in frequency. This Doppler effect applies equally to radio waves...