Word: physicists
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Died. Homi Jehangir Bhabha, 56, India's top nuclear physicist, a Nehru protege who, after taking over the Indian Atomic Energy Commission in 1947, built with U.S. and other foreign help a capability that by now has put the country within 18 months of having a Bomb (which it says it doesn't want); in the crash of an Air-India 707 jetliner on Mont Blanc, killing all 117 aboard...
After the war and Hiroshima, Brecht revised the play to include the problem of the scientist knowing sin. Brecht also began to portray the great physicist as the great proletarian who unwittingly becomes the leader of the masses. Galileo thus turned into a catch all for Brecht's most important thought during the war years. The result is staggering...
...Physicist and Amateur Historian Harvey Einbinder declared in 1963 that it was just a gory story to frighten voters with, an atrocity invented by the British to justify their conquest of Bengal. The British bristled, and this brief but masterly report by a correspondent for the London Daily Mail assures any doubters that the atrocity actually occurred. It occurred, in fact, at the anticlimax of a comedy of horrors scarcely paralleled in British history...
Though men have observed and recorded thousands of lunar and solar eclipses since the beginning of history, no one has ever reported watching one star-other than the sun-eclipse an other. If any scientists have been awaiting such an event, says University of Pittsburgh Physicist Walter Feibelman, they need be patient for only another 22 years. In 1988, he reports in the current issue of Science, the path of star 40 Eridani-A-only 16 light-years from the solar system-should take it directly between the earth and a remote, as yet unnamed star he calls X, which...
...Johnson that he really ought to hand back that silver tea service they presented to him as a going-away gift. M.I.T.'s committee on succession turned around and named Johnson, a specialist in industrial relations and executive development, as M.I.T.'s new president, to succeed retiring Physicist Julius Stratton...