Word: physicists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Physicist Seitz knows that some of his colleagues hate to develop new means of mass slaughter. They distrust military men, cringe at the thought of exposing themselves to spy hunts. But Dr. Seitz is convinced that they must. Otherwise, they will endanger "the most important ideals which have been evolved by mankind since the dawn of civilization . . . Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western culture was being overwhelmed...
...fraternity. For example, the continued partisan attacks on the top administration of the Atomic Energy Commission, on issues that appear absurd to most scientists, has probably done as much to impede the progress of that organization as could a number of well-placed Russian agents." What is needed, says Physicist Seitz, is a hard-hitting, imaginative agency like the wartime Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Another exciting project is to find out what happens when two protons slam together. At energies hitherto available, nothing much happens; the protons behave as if they were indestructible. But no physicist would care to bet on it-consid ering past surprises. Columbia's cyclotron may prove powerful enough to smash protons to bits and reveal a whole new level of sub-atomic structure...
...scientists would dare to make such figures public. But the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists had run on to an exception. Its article on the H-bomb is a reprint from a book by well-known Austrian Physicist Hans Thirring, who had no access to secret information. The book was published in Vienna, right under the nose of the Russians...
Ramsey, a 34-year-old nuclear physicist, came to the University in 1947 after active government work on atomic energy projects during the war. He has held positions as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War, Associate Development Head of the Los Alamos Project, and Chief Scientist at the Atomic Energy Advance Base at Tinian in the Marianas...