Word: physicists
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
...through the 1940s, when Pontecorvo joined an atomic-research team working in Canada and MacLean was posted to the British embassy in Washington. In 1950, MacLean, whose reputed homosexuality, increasing drunkenness and Soviet-sympathizing had nearly cost him his career, was approached by Russian agents. They sought a nuclear physicist after Britain's Klaus Fuchs had been discovered as a spy. According to World, MacLean suggested Pontecorvo. His friend, Guy Burgess arranged the details, and after a few weeks, Pontecorvo and his wife (the former Swedish mistress) went on a vacation to Sweden and disappeared. Nine months later, Burgess...
Then, last August 1953, thanks in part to the aid and knowledge of Bruno Pontecorvo, the Russians set off a superbomb explosion on the Aksu River. The Italian-born physicist and friend of MacLean was suddenly one of the most honored figures in Russia. When he added his plea to that of MacLean's, the Communists no longer denied him. Donald wrote Melinda, and soon the MacLean family was on its way to the ten-room villa they now occupy as the wife and children of a top-ranking Red bureaucrat...
Ever since Harvard refused to fire party-lining Physicist Wendell Furry, Senator Joe McCarthy has been furious. Last week he triumphantly announced that a bill is now being prepared to cut the tax exemption privileges of institutions that employ "Fifth Amendment Communists." For those who might favor such a bill, however, President Nathan Pusey had a few words to say in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin...
Died. Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, 85, Nobel Prizewinning physicist (1923), longtime head of California Institute of Technology (1921-46); in San Marino, Calif. Physicist Millikan isolated the electron and measured its charge (for which he got the Nobel Prize), investigated the character and origin of cosmic rays. Deeply religious, he never doubted that "the Creator is still...