Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...schoolteacher who is tireless, vigilant and indifferent to big red apples was on exhibit at London's Physical Society. The teacher is electronic and the creation of two young Cambridge scientists, Physicist McKinnon ) Wood and Psychologist Gordon Pask, under contract with Solartron Electronic Group Ltd. Designed for teaching such routine skills as typing and running radar equipment, the electronic teacher gives patient, individual attention...
...says that he would not assign all the scientists to science even if he could, for "that" would set the adviser up as a mere dispenser of information. The adviser should know the correct details about the field, of course, but he certainly does not have to be a physicist...
Among the notable discussants were Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...
From the Atomic Energy Commission to Hungarian-born Mathematician John Von Neumann, 52, pioneer developer of electronic brains and an AECommissioner, went a tax-free $50,000 for aiding the U.S. atomic energy program-second such award ever given (the first: to the late Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi...
Last week Russian Physicist Igor V. Kurchatov, speaking at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, brought the subject of controlled fusion into the open. As early as 1950, said Kurchatov, Soviet scientists made theoretical studies about it. They started actual laboratory work in 1952, the year the U.S. achieved its first full-scale thermonuclear explosion...