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Roentgen is a unit used in measuring gamma and X rays. It is named after Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen, a German physicist who discovered X rays...
Nobel prizewinning Physicist Willard Libby plans to take a large supply of sleeping pills into his own $30 did-it-him-self shelter, so that he and his family could doze out most of the ordeal. Several companies are selling prepackaged, high-protein emergency food supplies, and the Mormon church is distributing a two-week supply of emergency rations, packed in a neat metal cylinder, to all its members, along with the urgent suggestion that all good Mormons stockpile a full two-year supply in their larders. Others purvey all-purpose packages, such as the Bolton Farm Packing...
Originally a physicist, von Bekesy became interested in the car when an economist asked him (in the early 1920's) about improvements possible in communications systems. He then began to wonder how much better was the car than a telephone system, according to Stanley S. Stevens, Director of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory...
Tonight's medal recipients will include architect Le-Corbusier, physicist James A. Van Allen, who was responsible for the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts drdling the earth, and Donald A. Glaser, a Nobel Prize winner in physics last year for his work on the Bubble Chamber...
...first maser, built by physicist Charles H. Townes at Columbia University in 1951, solved this problem by physically segregating the high energy atoms in a gas from the low energy ones. This gas maser, however, proved unsuitable for practical amplification...