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...Lederberg, 35, a Nobelman in 1958 for his demonstration that viruses can change the heredity of bacteria, who is now deep in the study of a new science that he calls "exobiology" ?an attempt to obtain and compare life on other planets with that on earth. Another is Physicist Donald Glaser, one of the U.S.'s two Nobel prizewinners in science for 1960 (Chemist Libby is the other). Glaser's award came for his development of the bubble chamber, a quantum jump in the study of atomic particles. But at age 34, Glaser is about to start his scientific...
There is not, and cannot be, a realistic rule for classifying science or scientists. Physicist Emilio Segrè, a 1959 Nobelman for his explorations into the Alice-Through-the-Looking-Glass world of antimatter, is a master of pure theory. Virologist John Enders, with his struggles to understand submicroscopic organisms, has given mankind a powerful biological tool to produce immunization against diseases. Physicist Charles Townes, from his theoretical speculations about microwaves, sired one of the most revolutionary devices of the age: the maser, of immense practical application not only on earth but in seeking out the wonders of the universe. Geneticist...
What's the Matter? "We," says Caltech's Theoretical Physicist Murray Gell-Mann, at 31 one of the brightest new stars of U.S. science, "think that one of the most exciting things the human race can do is to understand the laws of nature. It is sad that it is so hard for others to follow us in this chase...
...tools of the high-energy physicists are enormous machines?cyclotrons, synchrotrons, linear accelerators?that smash atoms and subatomic particles to bits and expose them to study. Already, the physicists know of some 30 particles that form atoms or can be knocked out of them by high-energy collisions. The great challenge confronting the physicist is to formulate sets of laws describing the interaction of such particles and, at an even deeper level, to explain the reason for their existence. Therein lies the key to the understanding of the matter?and of all nature...
...world of the physicist can be an eerie one?and that is part of its fascination. In the field of high-energy physics, few are involved in more eerie or more fascinating work than Berkeley's Italian-born Emilio Segrè, who discovered the antiproton, which turns into a flash of energy when it hits an ordinary proton...