Word: physicists
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First Ride. Gary Cooper could have played Joe Walker. Walking as though he were wearing cowboy boots. Walker lards his speech with sounds like "Yup," "I reckon." and "Haw!" and claims that he is just "a physicist who travels." He grew up on a 200-acre farm near the Pennsylvania coal-mining town of Washington...
Also watching from a mountainside that morning was Los Alamos Physicist Ogle, barely a year past his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. Though his role was minor, he had caught the fever of the race to make the bomb...
...other three commissioners argued that the U.S. had a sufficient atomic superiority. J. Robert Oppenheimer, head of a general advisory commit tee of scientists to AEC, maintained that the doubtful project would only divert personnel from the proven A-bomb program. To Strauss's side, however, came AEC Physicist Edward Teller, whose studies indicated that the H-bomb was scientifically feasible, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Brien McMahon, chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, and finally AEC Commissioner Gordon Dean. On Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman ordered...
Last week at its annual meeting, the academy elected a new president. Retired after an unprecedented three terms was Physiologist Detlev W. Bronk, 64, who has run the academy since 1950. Chosen to take his place was 50-year-old Dr. Frederick Seitz, a dry-humored physicist from the University of Illinois, who has played a bright role in a new science: solid-state physics...
...unique cross between a private foundation and a federal agency, N.S.F. goes back to 1944. when President Roosevelt asked Physicist Vannevar Bush how to muster the nation's wartime inventiveness for "a fuller and more fruitful life" after the war. Bush, who headed the showcase Office of Scientific Research and Development during the war, recommended a federal foundation with a dual function: to set national science policy and nurture neglected basic research. Set up in 1950 as an independent agency within the executive branch, N.S.F. is governed by the 24-member National Science Board, appointed by the President...