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Flying into Rio de Janeiro on a lecture tour, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 57, irritably denied that he felt any guilt for serving as top scientist on the first A-bomb project. "I carry no weight on my conscience," insisted the white-haired director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, whose security clearance for participation in U.S. nuclear development was withdrawn in 1954. "Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has now changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of government, not of scientists." But in the Oppenheimer scheme...
...lights glinted off his dental braces, the youngest freshman got the biggest welcome at the University of California at Los Angeles. Lance Kerr, of Sun Valley, Calif., told newsmen that he likes swimming and baseball, hopes to be a research physicist, hopes his classmates like him. They doubtless will, but there is an age gap. Freshman Kerr* is only twelve years old, the youngest student in U.C.L.A. history...
Curved Prongs. The predicted difficulty of spotting omega proved to be only too real. At least five search parties in separate laboratories reported no luck. Then, under the leadership of Yugoslav Physicist Dr. Bodgan C. Maglic, scientists at the University of California's famed Lawrence Radiation Laboratory analyzed 2,500 photographs of the four-prong stars found when antiprotons shot from Berkeley's bevatron accelerator collide with protons in a bubble chamber. Each star shows four curved lines made by negative and positive pions (pi mesons) created by the collision. There seemed to be a slight chance that...
...Physicist Edward Teller, long an impassioned advocate of U.S. testing, brusquely dismissed the dangers of radioactive fallout from nuclear experiments. "Let's keep the record straight." said Teller. "Fallout from tests is not a danger...
Died. Percy Williams Bridgman, 79, metaphysically-inclined Yankee physicist who for 24 years occupied Harvard's prestigious Hollis Professorship of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, in 1946 won the Nobel Prize for his career-long study of the effect of high pressures (from 100,000 times the earth's normal atmosphere and up) on matter; by his own hand (.22-cal. sawed-off rifle) following the onset of cancer; in Randolph...