Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Collecting the portraits of the 15 Men of the Year also proved complicated. In the two weeks before this issue went to press, reporters and photographers tracked their men down from San Francisco to Stockholm. Physicist Donald Glaser, who had gone to Stockholm to receive a Nobel Prize, was trailed from Stockholm to London to Geneva, where he was finally found relaxing at a ski resort. To TIME'S reporter, the few moments he finally had with Glaser added up to a "vest-pocket" interview. To the scientist, the care and thoroughness of TIME'S investigations into...
...hard to make. But uranium is now a glut on world markets; with the expected development of a new, cheap German method of getting fissionable material by centrifuge (TIME, Oct. 24), the cost of a nuclear blast can be scaled down to the poor nation's level. Says Physicist Herman Kahn: "With the kind of technology that is likely to be available in 1969, it may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and technical Hottentot it is true, would be able to make bombs." Added a U.S. atomic-energy official...
...deep in its own crater, no one in the neighborhood saw any particular reason to cheer. But at the University of California's Livermore Radiation Laboratory, the news brought joy to the hearts of a pair of bright young scientists. To Geologist Donald Rawson, 26, and Physicist Gary Higgins, 33, the new lava pool sounded like an ideal testing site for a key phase of the Atomic Energy Commission's Project Plowshare: a plan for harnessing a steam-powered turbogenerator to the tremendous heat released by underground nuclear explosions...
...emphasize the issue of economy, Bruner used a statement of the noted physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, "All of modern physics has shown that to know anything, you must realize that you can't know everything." Bruner added that the amount of things we can handle at any one time is sharply limited...
...secret contents. Accustomed as they were to such Feynman showstoppers as proving that his sense of smell is as good as a dog's (by sniffing out articles handled by fellow dinner-party guests), even Feynman's scientist friends were startled last December when the lanky physicist impulsively set up his own small-scale version of the Nobel Prize...