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...Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who helped to develop the Russian hydrogen bomb, last week disclosed that he had been officially warned not to make contact with foreign journalists. In previous interviews with Western reporters, Sakharov has made several appeals in behalf of political prisoners. After he made the warning public, Sakharov was denounced by 40 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, to which he belongs. The only surprise in the denunciation was the fact that it was signed by so few of the academy's 248 members, indicating that if they could not defend Sakharov, most of the scientists...
...University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber astonished the scientific world with the claim that he had detected gravity waves-a phenomenon predicted by Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity but never confirmed by actual observation. Since then, scientists in half a dozen countries have tried to duplicate Weber's experiment (in which he measured tiny deformations in two large aluminum cylinders); but none of these efforts has been successful. Now still another negative report has been filed. Using a detector at least as sensitive as Weber's equipment, IBM Physicists Richard Garwin and James Levine write...
...Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
Died. Dr. Hans Albert Einstein, 69, son of the late famed physicist, and a professor of hydraulic engineering at the University of California at Berkeley, who was best known for his researches into the transportation of sediment in flowing water; following a heart attack; in Falmouth, Mass...
...Physicist Yuval Ne'eman, president of Tel Aviv University, says that he and other Israeli scientists were instrumental in persuading the six to end their hunger strike last week. He describes the phone calls as enabling the Russian scientists to maintain their sense of value. "We want them to feel that life is still worth living and that they are doing important work. They are men who are at the top of their profession. For them not to remain active is like dying...