Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...microscope, which cost a third of a million dollars to develop and build, is so revolutionary in principle that scientists associated with the project had to start practically from scratch anl develop whole new areas of theory. According to William A. Shurcliff '40, Polaroid physicist who co-ordinated teams of physicists, chemists, and biologists on the project. "We had to throw everything we knew about microscopes out of the window...
...initial idea of the ultraviolet microscope is the product of Edwin H. Land '31, a Ph.D. physicist and President and Director of research of the Polaroid Corporation. While working on other research in 1948, he got the idea of the application of polarized screens to the ultraviolet source...
Without leaving comfortable Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge, England, Physicist J. F. Nye took a crack at a new kind of Arctic exploration. Using the integrations of abstruse equations, he ranged over Greenland's great icecap, checking the observations of scientists who had made the trip in person. In Nature magazine, Dr. Nye reports his findings. Greenland, he concludes, is probably a mountain range rising from the sea, surrounding a vast, frozen, inland lake...
...Light. The Army has dreamed of drafting the atom into the artillery ever since it heard about Hiroshima. But the dream was wild and impractical until the atomic scientists discovered how to bring off small, controlled, atomic explosions. Then a young Army ordnance expert who is also a nuclear physicist, Colonel Angelo R. del Campo, drew up some sketches and took them to the AEC laboratories at Los Alamos. Working in high secrecy, West Pointer del Campo spent months juggling the requirements of artillery against the requirements of an atomic charge. (Sample: the mechanical parts of an atomic bomb need...
Edward C. Pickering, professor of Astronomy, was the central figure after 1876. He entered with a new attack on astronomy, applying his background as a physicist to the construction of equipment capable of measuring the light of the various stars to determine their magnitudes. He began the photographic survey of the skies, and his work was so extensive that much of it has been used to solve fundamental problems of today...