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...work, planning, disappointment, elation and frustration for thousands of scientists and technicians at J.P.L. and at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, which oversees the probe. "It's been a long, hard fight, both technically and politically," says James Van Allen, the University of Iowa physicist best known for his 1958 discovery of the radiation belts that girdle Earth. Van Allen, who likens the story of the Galileo mission to The Perils of Pauline, ought to know. He headed the scientific study group that first recommended the Galileo mission to NASA in 1976 and has since seen...
...variety of beats before devoting herself to science and writing and reporting a dozen or more memorable cover stories--so many, in fact, that she's lost track of the number. Like any great reporter, she works the beat around the clock. Her husband Thomas Nash is a particle physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory...
...weeks ago, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to British Physicist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs that he helped found to rid the world of atomic arms. Mallinckrodt Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus, Paul Doty, will get to share in that prize...
BAILING OUT OF THE WAR EFFORT was not a popular move in 1944; neither was opposing nukes at the height of the cold war in the 1950s and '60s. Popularity evidently wasn't high on Joseph Rotblat's list, though. The Polish-born British physicist was helping the U.S. develop the first A-bomb when he concluded that Nazi Germany was never going to build its own. So he quit his job with the Manhattan Project--the only physicist to do so--believing that only the threat of losing World War II could justify creating so terrible a weapon. Then...
British nuclear physicist Joseph Rotblat and the anti-nuclear group he helped found jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. Rotblat, who resigned from the Manhattan Project before it developed the first atom bomb, started the Pugwash Conference to work toward the eventual elimination of all nuclear weapons. Pugwash takes its name from the Nova Scotia fishing village where it was founded...