Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this new world, the liberal arts tend to become a specialty like any other. At a conference of honors program people last May, a brilliant physicist at the University of Pennsylvania declared that no bright physicist was going to teach his subject as a service to non-scientists. Everybody would have to learn it as if he or she was being prepared to "do physics." Indeed, he would not know how to teach it in any other way. And talking recently with sociologists at Smith College, they were saying that the products of the leading graduate schools are rarely prepared...
What was the weapon? Was it what famed U.S. Physicist Ralph Lapp calls a "gigaton" bomb-a nuclear weapon packing the power of a billion tons of TNT that could be detonated 100 miles off the U.S.'s coastline and still set off a 50-ft. tidal wave that would sweep across much of the entire North American continent? Was it a cobalt bomb that would send a deadly cloud sweeping forever about the earth? A "death ray" or a germ bomb? Or even an empty boast? Two days later Nikita Khrushchev said it wasn't nuclear...
...effort to reduce such side effects, electronics experts have resorted to all sorts of tricks. But in most cases the best they could do was follow advice as old as Scottish Physicist James Clerk Maxwell, the father of electrical theory, who died in 1879. It was Maxwell who pointed out that resistors could be bent into hairpin turns so that their current flowed in two directions, canceling out capacitance or inductance. Later, Physicist Georges Chaperon wound resistances into intertwined coils with the same result...
Wandering Mind. Those solutions work well, but not quite well enough for today's high-power equipment. At Sandia Corp. in Albuquerque, Physicist Richard L. Davis was busy trying to devise improvements. One day he let his mind wander and remembered an old mathematical parlor trick, the Möbius loop. * Math suddenly merged with electronics, and Davis had what he was searching for: the design of a noninductive Möbius resistor...
...Lohr resigned as president of NBC to take charge of Chicago's faltering Museum of Science and Industry in 1940, outraged scientists warned that showmanship would trample scholarship. "A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city," mourned the University of Chicago's Nobel-prizewinning physicist, Arthur Holly Compton...