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Autocrat Lovett shaped Rice for 34 years, gave way in 1946 to an impressive successor, Caltech Physicist William V. Houston (pronounced How-ston v. the city of Hew-ston). No backslapping money raiser, Researcher Houston had a dream financial setup going for him. Though it may some day require students to pay tuition, Rice grows fatter on oil income by the year. It never even badgers alumni for cash. When emergencies arise, Rice simply turns to its rich friends and trustees...
...DISCOVER elements," Glenn Theodore Seaborg once told an interviewer. And he certainly does: in less than 20 years. Chemist Seaborg shared in the discovery of nine new elements, all of them in the heavy, transuranium field. In 1940, when he was just 28, Seaborg and Physicist Edwin McMillan identified plutonium, and with it, the key to the atomic bomb; in 1951 Seaborg and McMillan received the Nobel Prize for their discovery. Working in a University of California laboratory, Seaborg and his associates gradually extended the periodic table of elements, usually named their discoveries for their place of origin (americum, berkelium...
...heaviest fallout was emotional. Indignation, fear and an undercurrent of hysteria roiled the world from Milan, where pregnant peasant women were convinced they would bear monsters, to Kyoto, where Nobel Laureate Physicist Hideki Yukawa wailed that "humanity is now doomed with this cancer called the nuclear weapon...
...year old Russian physicist is currently living in Leverett Towers and doing research at the university as part of a five-month visit to the United States...
Originally a physicist, von Bekesy became interested in the car when an economist asked him (in the early 1920's) about improvements possible in communications systems. He then began to wonder how much better was the car than a telephone system, according to Stanley S. Stevens, Director of the Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory...