Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Columbia University James B. Fisk, physicist, president Bell Telephone Laboratories Sc.D...
...wife of an industrial physicist, Teacher Levin is the mother of three sons (aged 6, 10, 12) and a sometime novelist who contributes frequent book reviews to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. A University of Wisconsin graduate, she began teaching in Tulsa this year. As a supplement to the regular reading list, e.g., Canterbury Tales, she supplied paperback editions of Catcher because it seemed to her "a beautiful and moving story." It was not required reading...
Died. Max Theodor Felix von Laue, 80, German physicist who won the 1914 Nobel Prize for his work on the nature of X rays; of injuries in an auto accident; in West Berlin. Though he did atomic research in the early days of World War II, Von Laue quit in 1943 in protest against the Nazi regime. In 1957 he was spokesman for 18 German physicists who opposed equipping West German forces with tactical nuclear weapons...
Smilingly describing himself as a "conservative" in such matters, black-browed Physicist Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned against the risks of submitting to a ban on underground explosions. "Very few things in science are impossible," said he. "but I do not believe that there is any great likelihood that even in four or five years from now there will be a really foolproof method of checking underground explosions down to, let us say, one kiloton [1,000 tons of TNT]. No matter how we proceed we cannot...
...Physicist Albert Latter, one of the U.S. scientific delegates to the Geneva conference, explained how a 300-kiloton explosion could be so placed in a big hole that it would give off a seismographic reading of only one kiloton...