Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Part of Classroom's success lies in the country's post-Sputnik appetite for science. But the show could have been a nucleonic turkey without its M.C.: Dr. Harvey E. White, 57, a top University of California physicist, who got the $38,000 yearly job (v. $12,000 at U.C.) after previously enlivening a TV high school physics course in Pittsburgh. A lanky, friendly, precise talker, Dr. White is no jazzy showman ; he drones at times like a farm agent exhaling a market report. Yet he somehow makes physics a sort of cosmic cooking course that can fascinate...
Nobel Flavor. Last week Classroom began expanding its faculty as well as its audience. Into White's continental ivory lab came the first of seven Nobel prizewinners, Bell Telephone Physicist Walter H. Brattain, for a flawless if slightly baffling discourse on transistors. The other Nobelmen in a second semester devoted to atomic physics: Columbia University's Dr. Polykarp Kusch (March 9), Caltech's Dr. Carl D. Anderson (May 6), Columbia's Dr. Isidor I. Rabi (May 15), Stanford's Dr. Felix Bloch (May 19), the University of California's chancellor, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg...
...graduates include such top industrialists as Takeshi Mitarai, president of the Canon Camera Co.; Mitsugu Sato, head of the firm that supplies more than half of Japan's dairy products; and Hohei Sugimatsu, president of the Nissan Chemical Co. One of Hokkaido's noted scholars is Physicist Dr. Ukichiro Nakaya, a world-respected authority on snow crystals and the elasticity of ice. Since development of the rugged northern island (pop. 5,000,000) is a prime government objective, it seems certain that Hokkaido University will keep on growing...
American scientists who have seen the aids call them excellent. Says Harvard's famed Physicist Gerald Holton: "Insofar as this material is new, it is striking, but it also represents another thing: that the Russians have expended precious technical thought on scientific educational equipment." The U.S. makes nothing like the classroom wave-motion machine, and an American-made projector that costs Harvard $300 serves the purpose no better than a Russian model that costs $24.50 (plus 40% duty) delivered in New York. Adds Dr. Albert Navez, whose high school program in Newton, Mass, last year turned out both winners...
...some places. Some non-Russian astronomers have accepted Dr. Kozyrev's observations, if not his theories. Professor Donald H. Menzel of Harvard thinks that Kozyrev certainly saw something happen on the moon, but it may have been merely a jet of gas breaking out of a crevice. Physicist J. H. Fremlin of the University of Birmingham, England theorized in this week's Nature that if the bottoms of lunar craters are deeply covered with dust, as many astronomers think, they are likely places for gas eruptions. The dust layer, says Fremlin, would be a good heat insulator...