Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Victor Hess, 81, Austrian-born physicist who, after taking radiation measurements during ten balloon ascensions over Europe in the early 1900s, descended to announce that radiation in the atmosphere resulted from "cosmic rays," not from radioactivity in the earth as had previously been supposed, a theory that was eventually accepted and won him the 1936 Nobel Prize; in Mount Vernon...
Natural Habitat. Bowen's durable predecessor, Rhodes Scholar Virgil M. Hancher, has kept Iowa in the front rank of state universities. The Iowa City campus is home for some of the most adventuresome minds in science and the arts: Physicist James Van Allen, Psychologist Wendell Johnson, Printmaker Mauricio Lasansky, Paul Engle's famed Writers' Workshop. The library, medical and law schools are among the best in the U.S. But Hancher is a corporation lawyer by training and cautious by instinct. "He tended to protect what we already had," says one dean, "but I am more concerned about...
Like the Daily Double. These elements have been enough to bring Du Pont many a windfall. They came together, for example, in a narrow darkroom in the industrial area of Parlin, N.J., where Physicist R. Kingsley Blake produced Du Pont's new no-negative photographic film. Blake started out by simply trying to untangle a peculiar phenomenon that he had been observing for a few months: faint positive images that unaccountably appeared on sheets of film. He was sure that the reaction was caused by any one of countless chemicals in his photo lab-but which one? Working...
...professions of the other four Commissioners, one is a physicist, one a physical chemist, and two are lawyers. "It's really quite an ingrown group--four of the five of us have offspring at Harvard or Radcliffe." And the fifth? "He doesn't have any children...
Life Imitates Art. Thus did Snow, 59, sometime physicist, Cambridge don, civil servant, business executive and portrayer-in-fiction of Britain's rulers, begin a new career: Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Technology in Wilson's new government, which has raided labs and lecture halls for academic talent to fill key posts in education, defense, science, economics...