Word: physicists
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...Brookhaven National Laboratories, is the most exciting campus in the system. So new that the ivy is only about six inches up the red brick walls, it expects to challenge any university in physics research within a few years. Its $30,000-a-year President Toll is a theoretical physicist from the University of Maryland; his reputation-plus a $45,000-a-year salary-recently lured Nobel Physicist C. N. Yang to Stony Brook to head an Institute of Theoretical Physics that will have a $2,700,000 nuclear lab. Toll, who has also captured English Scholars Alfred Kazin...
...performed spectacular research in studying ways to enable dogs to breathe water, and the med school's Dr. Robert Guthrie is the developer of a simple test to spot brain-crippling phenylketonuria (PKU) in infants. Foundation grants have allowed Buffalo to snare Nobel Laureate Willard F. Libby and Physicist Edward Teller as visiting professors. Critic Leslie Fiedler teaches in the English department. S.U.N.Y.'s only law school is at Buffalo...
Died. Hugh Latimer Dryden, 67, deputy chief of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; of cancer; in Washington. Dryden, as he liked to say, grew up with aviation-and the U.S. Government's stake in it; his physicist's talents took him through virtually every major project beginning with the first significant research into air turbulence. He was slated to be NASA's chief when the space agency was formed in 1958, but then bluntly told an overanxious Congress that rushing a man into suborbital flight made no more sense than "shooting a woman...
Alfvén's theory evolved from an earlier proposal by another Swedish physicist, Dr. Oskar Klein, who believes that the known universe originated billions of years ago from a cloud of matter and antimatter particles that was contracting because of gravitation. As the particles drew closer together, the increasing annihilative reactions between matter and antimatter produced enough radiation pressure to reverse the contraction of the cloud and hurl its primeval matter outward in an expansion that has continued ever since...
Neither the "steady-state" nor "expanding" universe theory fully satisfies Swedish Physicist Hannes Alfven. What bothers him is that both ignore the existence of antimatter. "It seems logically unsatisfactory," writes Alfvén in the current Reviews of Modern Physics, "that cosmological theories should be based on the assumption that the universe contains only matter." Recent subatomic-physics research has disclosed the existence of an antiparticle for every particle of ordinary matter, he says, thus there is every reason to assume that half the celestial objects in our universe are made of antimatter...