Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic energy may soon successfully combat polio and other virus diseases, Professor Ernest C. Pollard, a Yale University physicist, recently announced. When atomic bullets are fired at viruses, antibodies, which are the defense mechanism of the human body, will be formed...
...distant cousin of Physicist Albert...
...Nuclear Physicist Enrico Perm!, 1938 Nobel Prize winner, who started the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, dropped in at the University of Rochester, picked up a Doctor of Science degree, his eighth honorary diploma...
...medicine was only a part of the foundation's interests. It helped finance the Shakespeare Memorial Theater in Stratford-upon-Avon,,gave nearly $2,000,000 for a new site for the University of London. It contributed to Columbia's Institute for Russian Studies, sent money to Physicist Niels Bohr for his Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Copenhagen...
Alexander Weissberg, an Austrian physicist, was in charge of the construction of an experimental plant in Kharkov. Every morning when he swept off to work in his chauffeur-driven car he would pass the prison of Kholodnaya Gora and "avert my gaze" from the distressing spectacle of "prisoners clinging to the bars." But one morning in 1937, Weissberg was unable to avert his gaze: he was clinging to the bars himself...