Word: physicists
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...Frederick Seitz, physicist, president of the National Academy of Sciences-D.Sc...
...Mass is that property of a body which resists change of motion. On the surface of the earth, it is closely equivalent to weight. Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach (1838-1916), who gave his name to the principle, is better known today for Mach numbers, a method of measuring speed in multiples of the speed of sound...
Edward Teller, nuclear physicist...
Congress, says Stanford Physicist Wolfgang Kurt Hermann Panofsky, will have to learn the difference between applied research (in which a man knows what he is looking for) and basic research (in which he does not). "When spending money on an applied device," he says, "you have to question the need for it. But when spending money on fundamental research that may change our whole way of looking at nature, the question of the need is premature...
Died. Leo Szilard, 66, famed physicist, who with Enrico Fermi in 1942 triggered the world's first nuclear chain reaction and thus made possible the atomic bomb; of a heart attack; in La Jolla, Calif. A Hungarian-Jewish refugee from Hitler's persecutions, Szilard foresaw as early as 1939 the possibility of uranium bombs, persuaded Einstein to lend his famous name to a letter to President Roosevelt in which he pointed out the danger that Germany might beat the U.S. to such a weapon; once his advice was heeded and the bomb developed, Szilard looked with regret upon...