Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to pinpoint the source of the mysterious Scorpio X rays, a group of scientists led by Physicist Riccardo Giacconi, of Cambridge's American Science & Engineering, Inc., lofted a NASA Aerobee rocket 150 miles above the earth-well above the atmospheric blanket that X rays cannot penetrate...
...rocket's nose was a complex instrument package designed by Physicist Herbert Gursky and containing a sensitive X-ray scanner and a small camera pointed at Scorpio for 55 sec. of the brief ballistic flight. By measuring the changing intensity of X rays detected by the scanner and coordinating the scanner with the camera, Giacconi's group was able to locate Scorpio's X-ray source about 1,000 times as accurately as any previous studies. They also determined the angular size of the radiating object itself, and concluded that the X-ray source would probably appear...
...training, British Physicist Frank Stannard is a sober scientific observer concerned with the material world of matter and motion, of minute particles and massive reactions. By inclination Stannard is a dreamer. His antic imagination has conjured up an oddball universe where time actually runs backward. There, reports Stannard in Nature, a swimmer would rise from the water to land on a diving board, a decaying apple would gradually turn unripe and then into a blossom, all life would proceed from tomb to womb...
...accurately for days in advance. Because far more information about the weather is still needed, the World Meteorological Organization will next year inaugurate a "World Weather Watch" using Tiros and Nimbus satellites and a network of 250 land and sea stations. Even more accurate observation is envisioned by U.S. Physicist Peter Castruccio, director of IBM's Advanced Space Programs, who suggests a follow-on to the Apollo program that would place weathermen in the sky along with two unmanned platforms equipped with complex weather-probing devices...
SLAC's director, Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Panofsky, 47, a refugee from Nazi Germany, grants that he is unable to predict what applications-if any-its discoveries will have, and he frankly admits that he is the proud boss of "the world's largest impractical machine...