Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy it is to slide from cold war gamesmanship toward white-hot holocaust, and the knowledge was profoundly sobering. The possibility of a sneak nuclear attack, while not entirely discounted, is pretty well ruled out by military men; the attacker could not himself escape destruction. Says Herman Kahn, the physicist and Government consultant who popularized the term "escalation": "Barring a blowup in Eastern Europe, there will be no confrontation with the Soviets for years. The steam has gone out of their world revolution...
...steam turbine to turn a generator, and many are the low-grade deposits that have remained untapped because it has become too expensive to mine the coal and ship it to distant markets. Now the U.S. Department of the Interior has made a modest $680,500 bet that Physicist Meredith Gourdine, 36, has found a promising answer to the dilemma...
...Specialty. But Gourdine is a persistent man. After earning his doctorate in engineering science at Caltech in 1960, he worked as a physicist in private industry for four years, vainly attempting to interest his employers in developing a practical EGD generator. In 1964, after failing to sell his idea, he rounded up a handful of fellow scientists, raised $200,000 and founded his own company-Gourdine Systems, Inc. He is already producing laboratory EGD generators for use in college and high school demonstrations, and has licensed Foster Wheeler Corp.-an industrial boiler manufacturer-to build EGD generators for industry...
...Most chemical reactions," says Caltech Chemical Physicist Aron Kuppermann, "are unholy messes." The neat formulas and precise equations of the textbooks may be all right as far as they go, but they present an incomplete picture of what is really "a large number of processes, some of which are not fully understood...
...Harvard's leading scientists, Norman F. Ramsey, an experimental physicist, and Julian S. Schwinger, a theoretical physicist, will become Higgins Professors of Physics on July...