Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Physicist RALPH E. LAPP, in the BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS...
...Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 43, is a handsome, stocky physicist from Bombay, India. He speaks precise English with a Cambridge accent, and is an accomplished painter and violinist. At 31 he became a fellow of the Britain's Royal Society, and he is now the chairman of India's Atomic Energy Comission. In new York last week week, Dr Bhabha explained how India intends to lift itself by its atomic bootstraps...
...important asset, Physicist Bhabha believes, is India's tradition of learning, "Those Brahmans who sit on their bottoms all day," he says, "are not just siting. They are thinking, and they have been doing it for thousands of years. When the young ones turn their thinking to physics, they quickly get rather good...
Bigger Steak. Last year's coach, Physicist J. W. Buchta, who is now on loan to the Government for a year, thinks Minnesota is so successful because the team was chosen carefully to begin with "We didn't look only at their marks but also at their ability to think quickly and intuitively. One of last year's best team members was actually found to be on probation after he had made the team...
...these accomplishments, Kimpton realizes that the University of Chicago has lost much of the experimental glamour of the Hutchins era. Nor has he been able to replace such men as Physicist Enrico Fermi, who died last November, Psychologist Louis Thurstone and Sociologist Ernest Burgess, who retired, or Chemist Harrison Brown, Geologist F. J. Pettijohn and Physiologist Ralph Gerard, all of whom have gone elsewhere. Will Chicago ever again become as exciting a place as it used to be? The danger is, says Kimpton, "that you get so used to thinking in terms of retrenchment that you lose any imaginative flair...