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...officers say. The only Faculty members who will draw that top rate are the University Professors, a select group of scholars granted the honorary distinction of not being confined to a single department. There will be six next year: historian Bernard Bailyn, literature scholar Walter Jackson Bate. Nobel-winning physicist Nicolaas Bloembergen, economist John Dunlop, historian and Harvard Librarian Oscar Handlin, and philosopher John Rawls...
...name of Steven Weinberg invariably comes up when this question is raised. Weinberg, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, left Harvard last year for a reported six-figure salary at the University of Texas at Austin. "Steven Weinberg wanted to stay here," Rosovsky says. "He left because of his wife," who joined the faculty of the University of Texas law school. Weinberg himself has an unlisted telephone number and was unavailable for comment...
DIED. Merle Tuve, 80, physicist whose discoveries opened the way to radar and nuclear energy; in Bethesda, Md. More than 50 years ago, Tuve noted that short-pulse radio waves reflected off the ionosphere, which provided the theoretical underpinning for radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...
Many other scientists were understandably cautious. In 1975 Berkeley Physicist P. Buford Price also thought he had found a monopole. Looking for cosmic rays, Price and three colleagues developed a multilayered plastic sandwich to record the tracks left by subatomic particles and launched the contraption over Iowa in a helium balloon. During three days, the particle detector recorded 75 hits, one much different from the rest. When Price published a paper claiming to have found a monopole "candidate," the scientific community's excitement soon gave way to skepticism. In the end, Price admitted he had been a bit hasty...
Cabrera and others are now rushing to build larger devices in the hope of expanding his approach. Armed with a three-coil device, Cabrera expects to record as many as 100 events in a year. Says Harvard Physicist Sheldon Glashow: "If Cabrera is right, this will be one of the most important physics discoveries in this century. It's been a long quest...