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Many Western observers attending an international peace forum in Moscow three weeks ago were startled when Kremlin Critic Andrei Sakharov showed up for Mikhail Gorbachev's closing address, listened intently and applauded. But few at that conference had a chance to learn the actual views of the physicist who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975. Sakharov seemed to avoid the press, confining his remarks to closed-door sessions with fellow scientists. Only tantalizing snippets of his opinions leaked...
Harvard Nobel physicist Carlo Rubbia threatened to resign earlier this month after his colleague and fellow Nobel Laureate Sheldon L. Glashow praised a controversial book which criticizes him, a source close to Rubbia said yesterday...
Time published a letter last week from Glashowwhich calls the book "sensationalized" and saysRubbia "is a physicist in the tradition of Galileoand Fermi, with only a wee bit of Machiavellithrown...
...True, Rubbia is a hot headed honcho who willmove mountains when they are in his way, but he isa supernally brilliant physicist and a man ofunimpeachable integrity," the letter says...
Glashow said Taubes correctly depicts Rubbia ata "peculiar period" in which the physicist'shoped-for scientific breakthrough of finding apreviously undetected particle turned out to be afluke...