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Speakers will include Harvey Brooks, Dean of Engineering and Applied Physics. An applied physicist, an engineer, and an applied mathematician will also give talks...
...most people are starved for food, most crops are starved of essential elements-nitro gen, phosphorus and potassium." Though production of nitrogen fertilizer has now reached 10 million tons a year, it "still ranks as one of the most underexploited discoveries of all time." Concluded Britain's Physicist P.M.S. Blackett: "We as scientists and technologists, have already given ourselves the tools by means of which hunger could be banished from the world. It is now up to us as citizens of the world to make sure they are used...
...transistor grew out of a "parlor trick" in Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1940. One of the scientists there "had a little chunk of black stuff with a couple of contacts on it," recalls Bell Physicist Walter H. Brattain, "and when he shone a flashlight on it, he got a voltage. I didn't believe it." But Brattain never forgot, and seven years later (a delay enforced by the war), using the same "black stuff"-silicon-in an electrolytic solution, he got the same effect: a current was produced ten times as great as that from any other photoelectric device...
While Olson was in jail, the state police also rummaged through his cottage without a search warrant, removed and destroyed several of his books. Among them: Crime and Punishment and One, Two, Three, Infinity, a lively treatise on numbers by Physicist George Gamow...
Died. Martin D. Whitaker, 58, nuclear physicist and president since 1946 of Lehigh University, who during World War II organized and directed the Clinton Laboratories at Oak Ridge, Tenn., which pioneered in the production of plutonium for use in the first atomic bomb; of cancer; in Bethlehem...