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...After the war, Zuckert became executive assistant to Surplus Property Administrator Stu Symington, followed Symington into the Pentagon E-Ring as an Assistant Secretary of the Air Force. Appointed to the Atomic Energy Commission in 1952 by Harry Truman, Zuckert signed the controversial majority decision in 1954 that barred Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer from access to classified material. The day after the decision was announced Zuckert's A EC term expired and he went into Washington law practice...
...bomb." In the first place, he argues, the big bomb was the creation of many minds. Even more important, the phrase is unpopular with Teller's teen-age son Paul. Explains Teller: "No one would want the hydrogen bomb for a kid brother." But the rumpled, Hungarian-born physicist has small chance of escape. Many minds did indeed contribute to the U.S. H-bomb, but it was Teller's basic insight that made the finished product possible. Today, he teaches a freshman course in physics appreciation at U.C.L.A., has a couple of books under way, is investigating the peaceful application...
...research job is pure and how much applied," says Shockley, "is like asking how much Negro and white blood Ralph Bunche might have. What's important is that Ralph Bunche is a great man." Hired by Bell Telephone Laboratories right after he graduated from M.I.T. in 1936, Theoretical Physicist Shockley was one of a team that found a use for what had previously been a scientific parlor stunt: the use of silicon and germanium as a photoelectric device. Along with his partners, Shockley won a Nobel Prize for turning hunks of germanium into the first transistors, the educated little crystals...
Emilio Gino Segrč, 55, was a promising young Italian engineering student when he was invited to become the late great Physicist Enrico Fermi's first graduate student. The invitation paid off. Fermi and Segrč collaborated with three other Italian scientists in perfecting the slow neutron process that was essential to the production of the atomic bomb. In 1938 Segrč came to the U.S., and six years later, like Fermi, became a U.S. citizen. Although he feels certain that most scientists do their best work before they are 30, he excepts himself, continues with his Nobel-prizewinning work in the weird...
James Alfred Van Allen, 46, has an eloquently simple definition for space: "It is the hole we are in." That hole, says Physicist Van Allen, "is a vast area of human ignorance, and the history of the world shows that attacking ignorance is fruitful." Ever since he was a shy student studying cosmic rays at Iowa Wesleyan, Van Allen has been in the vanguard of the attack. In his cluttered lab at the State University of Iowa, his carefully compiled experiments with rockets and satellites add up to an interplanetary detective story. Clue piled upon clue finally demonstrated the existence...