Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story was simple and good. Although there are a few unanswered questions why does a top nuclear physicist cooperate with a spy ring, how is the ring actually broken--it is generally absorbing. This is due in part, I suppose, to the direction of Russell Rouse, but Milland himself deserves a good deal of credit. His expressions are easy to read and to interpret, and he never drops out of character...
Journalists last month suddenly dragged a rather unwilling physicist out of secluded Lyman Laboratory into the public's view. Self-effacing Edward M. Purcell (as well as Stanford's Felix Bloch) had won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics and this was part of his reward. "First came the Swedish reporters," Purcell complained, "for they had advance notice. Things are beginning to quiet down now, and my wife and I have finally answered most of the mail," he added, looking up from his cluttered desk...
Though "one speaker came to apologize for biology and the other two to excuse his apologies," the two and a half hour meeting brought forth the alleged differences between the sciences. Frank pointed out that the theoretical physicist is faced with much the same sort of problem as is the biologist when the former attempts to explain complicated physical phenomena. Conant subscribed by adding that the very "success of physics was that it had by-passed the really difficult problems...
...cited the seeming disparity between the death sentence given the Rosenbergs and the mere jail sentence dealt Klaus Fuchs, British physicist who confessed to what Sarton termed "worse crimes...
...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...