Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Princeton Physicist Henry D. Smyth (rhymes with blithe), author of the Smyth Report and now an AECommissioner, hustled up to the Capitol to explain that chairmanless AEC was already having trouble enough trying to plan an H-bomb. Pike's rejection would leave the five-man commission shy two men-and, Smyth argued, make it doubly difficult to find replacements. "There is no doubt in my mind of Mr. Pike's intelligence, integrity, and complete devotion to the national welfare," said Smyth. In the strange world of the atom, Pike-a retired Manhattan mining and utilities financier...
Destination Moon uses expert technical tricks to picture the oddities of travel beyond the earth's atmosphere and gravity Its four lunar explorers-a physicist (Warner Anderson), an industrialist (John Archer), a retired general (Tom Powers) and a dimwit radio operator (Dick Wesson)-float weirdly around the inside of the rocket until they put on magnetized boots. Then they can walk on the walls. When a radar antenna jams, they go out on the hull in pressurized monkey suits to make repairs while traveling at seven miles a second. The scientist slips off into space, and his traveling companions...
Patiently, month after month, the FBI had been trying to untangle the all-but-invisible skeins of plot and counterplot by which Russia had stolen U.S. atomic secrets. The pursuit of Britain's Dr. Klaus Fuchs, physicist and traitor, started the process. After his arrest, it took 3½ months of painful toil before U.S. agents worked their way back along his trail to Harry Gold, the Philadelphia chemist. After that, the untangling progressed quickly. Last week, 23 days after catching Gold, the FBI picked up two of his confederates...
...Pasadena, the FBI arrested a mild-mannered, chess-playing, Russian-born physicist named Sidney Weinbaum, 52. He was charged with committing perjury and fraud in concealing his past membership in the Communist Party in filling out job questionnaires. A wartime theoretical physicist at Bendix Aviation, he became a senior research engineer in CalTech's jet-propulsion laboratory in 1946, has had only a research fellow's job at CalTech since 1949, when Army Intelligence withdrew his clearance to do confidential work. The FBI did not link him to Spy Courier Gold, or to espionage...
...Higher Loyalty. Chairman of the opening meeting was Presbyterian Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, atomic physicist and chancellor of Washington University St. Louis...