Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boston, one of the most publicized cases that grew out of Joe McCarthy's career as wild-swinging slayer of subversive dragons came to an end. Because of insufficient evidence, the Government announced that it was dropping the prosecution of Harvard Physicist Wendell Furry, charged with contempt for refusing to answer the Senator's questions. ¶Gift of the week: from John D. Rockefeller Jr., $1,000,000 to Dartmouth College for Dartmouth's new social and creative arts center (TIME, Feb. 20). ¶Resignation of the week: Samuel Brownell, brother of U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell...
Tricky Balance. Leakproof magnetic bottles, Physicist Teller pointed out, are not easy to construct. The magnetism must be just strong enough to confine the ionized gases at the right density and temperature, and keep them confined long enough for a reaction to take place. The reaction would release energy and raise the temperature, so the magnetic field must grow stronger when necessary to keep things in balance. Power must be drawn out of the system without disturbing its tricky balance...
Philosopher Sidney Hook's Brooklyn rooftop to the Pacific rocks at La Jolla, where he perched Physicist George Gamow. It was the second time this year that we borrowed Eisie from LIFE. His gallery of distinguished businessmen appeared in the Man-of-the-Year issue (TIME...
...Ones. What are some of the problems that the intellectual now faces? The most obvious is the vast complexity of modern knowledge itself. Today's thinkers speak in many tongues, not always understood by each other. This is a part of the intellectual's plight, for, says Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "if people can't tell what learned folk are up to, they may regard them as sinister." Unlike France, America has no intellectual cafe society, no small "mandarin" coteries to look to. "There is," says Philosopher Theodore Greene, "no headquarters and no head, no corporate momentum...
...particular country. He may be a maverick genius like Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, or a state Supreme Court chief justice who, like New Jersey's Arthur T. Vanderbilt, especially has devoted his talents to improving the courts. He may be doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief-or a physicist like George Gamow, who will explode: "Intellectual? Intellectualism? I don't know what you're talking about!" Indeed, one of the difficulties in tagging the U.S. intellectual is his own resistance to the tag. It is quite characteristic of America that Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner should declare, with...