Word: physicists
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...freckled 26-year-old physicist from Toulouse, Grouzelle serves with one of the three French battalions deployed in Sarajevo. On this particular morning his thoughts are with the 51 members of the unit who were taken hostage by Bosnian Serbs six days before. "I don't know any of them personally," he says, "but I think a lot about them. I believe they must feel very unprofessional...
...Physicist and Kingmaker...
More important, he was an accomplished physicist. When he was named a fellow of Harvard College, Slichter was completing a four-year stint on the President's Science Advisory Committee under Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard M. Nixon. Slichter says it was this experience that made him valuable to the Corporation...
Like all physics concentrators, Slichter carried a heavy academic course load. But as a result of World War II, the first two years of the young physicist's course of study was crammed into...
...became pregnant and had a daughter. Natalya Evdokimova is now 50, and she became a doctor too. She went through a particularly difficult experience in the waning years of Soviet power. In 1984 she was assigned as the personal physician to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and dissident physicist Andrei Sakharov. He and his wife Yelena Bonner were closely watched by the secret police. "[KGB agents] tried to accuse us of diagnosing Sakharov's condition as being more serious than it really was, or of trying to give him information and news," she says. "We were treated very badly...