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DIED. BERNARD VONNEGUT, 82, physicist who turned rainmaking into more than a song and dance; in Albany, N.Y. An expert in tempests and twisters, Vonnegut (brother of novelist Kurt) conjured rain in the 1940s by seeding clouds with silver iodide...
...part of this weekend's conference, Shirley A. Jackson, chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and a distinguished theoretical physicist, was given the Harvard Foundation Award for her contributions to intercultural and race relations...
...pretty clear that Ed was someone that everyone in the department admired as a great physicist," he said...
DIED. ROBERT KLARK GRAHAM, 90, optical physicist who developed shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses; in Seattle. Later in life Graham established a controversial sperm bank for Nobel Prize winners. He was criticized as a eugenicist, but his bank has been credited with fathering more than 200 children...
Scientists are not what you'd call high rollers. But in 1991 STEPHEN HAWKING, the brilliant, paralyzed British physicist, bet American colleagues KIP THORNE and JOHN PRESKILL that there is no such thing as a naked singularity in physics. A singularity is an object of such density that the laws of physics do not apply to it. A naked singularity is such an object outside a black hole, but Hawking believes it can exist only inside a black hole. He lost his bet when someone else proved that you could, in theory, focus gravity waves so precisely as to create...