Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some skeptical scientists have wondered if Vanguard would ever get off the ground. Navy specialists are sure the man-made moon will rise as planned. Says Physicist John P. Hagen. the Navy's director of Project Vanguard: "It is fair to say that at the moment we see no problem we cannot solve as scheduled...
...many scientists have wondered if all nature is as balanced between matter and antimatter as the atom is between positive and negative charges. If so, where are all the antiprotons to balance the protons that help make up the known universe? Writing in Science, Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, 45, senior physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, suggests a startling theory. Could it be, asks Scientist Goldhaber, that the missing antiprotons form a whole separate universe of antimatter...
Died. Thomas D. Bourdillon, 31, British physicist and rocket expert who in 1953, with Dr. Charles Evans, climbed to within 300 feet of Mt. Everest's peak before being turned back by bad weather and lack of oxygen, three days before Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norkey made it to the top; in a fall while climbing Ausserberg in southern Switzerland...
...truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo drums were the only things that could take his mind off mathematics, told the court: "He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving his car and lying in bed at night. The only thing that would distract...
...years at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration arrived at Ohio State to usher in its era of greatest prosperity and controversy. He aroused student and faculty resentment by insisting that he screen all campus speakers, earned the censure of the American Association of University Professors by firing Physicist Byron Darling for invoking the Fifth Amendment before a House investigating committee. He made bitter enemies ("He only talks about money and buildings. He's not an educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody...