Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Yale philosophy department has all sorts-logical positivists and metaphysicians (e.g., Carl Hempel and Paul Weiss), Agnostic F.S.C. Northrop, Physicist Henry Margenau, Idealist Theodore Greene. Last week, Yale added the final diversity-a Thomist, and the only Jesuit professor at any big non-Catholic university...
...France, where arsenic has been a popular eliminator since the days of the famed Marquise de Brinvilliers,* this lack of precision troubled Henri Griffon, toxicology specialist for the Paris prefecture of police. He discussed the problem with his old friend, Captain Jean Barbaud, physicist and fellow graduate of the Val de Grâce military hospital. Together they worked out an answer. They brought the hair from a known arsenic victim to "Zoé," the atomic pile at Châtillon. For eight days they bombarded the hair in the pile's neutron flux. Then, when the elements...
Scientists who object to some of Author Meier's generalizations should have no trouble producing exceptions-e.g., Philadelphia Chemist Harry Gold and Manhattan Engineer Julius Rosenberg,who passed U.S. atomic secrets to the spy ring of which British Physicist Klaus Fuchs was the most notorious member...
Married. Marjorie Bertha Morgenstierne, 19, "Miss United Nations of 1946" and daughter of Norway's Ambassador to the U.S. Wilhelm Morgenstierne; and Physicist John Howard Coleman, 25; in Washington...
...Class of 1926 went through college during the Coolidge boom, when the Yard was also booming with such great names as Charles Townsend Copeland, George Lyman Kittredge, Bliss Perry and Irving Babbitt. But only a handful of the 745 have become headliners (among them: Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, This Week Editor William Ichabod Nichols), and far more have made the Social Register (23%) than Who's Who in America (8%). After 25 years, the average Harvardman, '26, has become a happy, prosperous gentleman with a goodly share of virtues and some surprising vices...