Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Married. Vladimir Zworykin, 62, Russian-born, Russian-trained physicist, the "father of television," who developed the iconoscope (eye) of the TV camera in 1923, now laments: "We never dreamed of Howdy Doody on Television - we always thought television would find its highest value in science and industry"; and Katherine Polevitzky, 62, Russian-born professor of bacteriology at the University of Pennsylvania; both for the second time; in Burlington...
...Imports. As rector, Werner Richter hopes to spread his "universal approach." The university he heads was once one of Germany's greatest-a place that boasted such great names as Historian von Treitschke and Physicist von Helmholtz, such alumni as Nietzsche and Carl Schurz. But like other German institutions, it had fallen into rigid habits -a narrow scholarship for narrow specialists...
...Oxford Philosopher-Physicist Lord Cherwell (rhymes with "Ah well"), a 65-year-old teetotaler and vegetarian who, as Professor Lindemann, was Churchill's wartime scientific adviser, moved into No. 11 Downing Street, next door to Churchill, as Paymaster-General. His real assignment: to speed up Britain's lagging atomic energy program, and get a British-produced bomb ready for testing within six months...
Krick's method uses coke-burning generators which send silver-iodide particles skyward to increase precipitation. His theories of weather forecasting and rainmaking have been opposed by the U.S. Weather Bureau, Physicist Irving Langmuir, who started cloud seeding, and many another scientist...
...made the long, hard climb from Licq-Athérey to Lépineux's discovery. They brought climbing ladders, cement to secure loose rock in the side of the chimney, and a windlass to lower the explorers into the unknown. Expedition Chief Max Cosyns, a Belgian nuclear physicist who goes after spelunking records on the side, estimated the chimney's depth by timing the echo from rocks that ricocheted off the limestone walls. The explorers were looking for a drop of about 350 meters...