Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrator, a tormented young European intellectual, is obsessed by light. His hero, Prince de Bary (suggested by the late famed French physicist, the Due de Broglie), has resolved the paradox of light with a theory that allows it to be considered both as waves and as particles. But the prince is a scientific dreamer who can illuminate both matter-energy and the puzzle of creation in the same vision: "If we give free rein to our fantasy, we may suppose that at the first beginning of time, light alone existed in the world, and by its gradual thickening brought into...
...Inward Eye. Politically, Schirmbeck is an annoying cafe neutralist; he indulges himself in an overcrude lampoon of U.S. Physicist Edward Teller, and solemnly puts forth the preposterous view that Atom Spies "Arthur and Edith Rosenbluth" were martyrs in the cause of freedom of information. But the author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question...
...cream of humanity." To date, he has sanctuaries available in Japan, France, England, Austria, Italy, Brazil and Mexico. One of them, a luxurious, palm-shaded home on Mexico's Acapulco Bay, has already been christened by greatness. Faber's first guest genius: honeymooning Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Donald Glaser, 34, and his 23-year-old bride...
Traveling to the United States under the Lacey-Zarubin agreement will be S.A. Malinin, an expert in international law; V.V. Mavrodin, an eminent Soviet historian; and J.V. Navoshilov, a physicist specializing in quantum mechanics. Pattullo expressed hope that more of the nine invited professors will come to the University...
...Boulder, Colo. last week, Roger M. Gallet, a physicist for the National Bureau of Standards, exuberantly described the most dramatic experiment of his career. Said he: "It was like this: whop and then whop." Gallet's "whops" bade fair to change the scientific world's concept of radar and its potential...