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Famed as a critic of the "two-culture" gap between scientists and nonscientists, Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he was a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The New Men, The Masters, The Affair); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor. To illustrate his point, he said last week, "The best I can do is tell a story...
...public power after failing to reach the first rank in pure science. They had little else in common. Chemist Tizard, who at times "looked like a highly intelligent and sensitive frog," was the outgoing, very English son of a regular navy officer. The "very odd and very gifted" Physicist Lindemann was "repressed, suspicious, malevolent." A fanatic Englishman-by-adoption, he was a fierce ascetic who shunned sensual pleasures. Snow recalls him as "an extreme and cranky vegetarian who lived largely on the whites of eggs,† Port Salut cheese and olive...
...secret contents. Accustomed as they were to such Feynman showstoppers as proving that his sense of smell is as good as a dog's (by sniffing out articles handled by fellow dinner-party guests), even Feynman's scientist friends were startled last December when the lanky physicist impulsively set up his own small-scale version of the Nobel Prize...
...paper was opposed by Tizard and other English scientists, on scientific grounds, Tizard and P. M. S. Blackett, another physicist, Lindemann's estimates of the effectiveness of strategic bombing five or six times too high, "Everyone knew that if Tizard and Blackett were right, the thing was not worth doing," know noted. But Lindemann was in power, and his policy was put into effect...
...President's Science Advisory Board (TIME, November 14th), that I am "not technically qualified to discuss such questions" as I raised in my two open letters to the Presidential candidates on the issue of nuclear tests. Professor Rabi apparently means that, since I am not a nuclear physicist, I am incompetent to discuss issues of public policy with regard to the development of nuclear technology. This is an absurd and arrogant judgment...