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Photographers, for want of more exciting moments, snapped frantic shots of physicist Murray B. Levin '48, into whose face an enterprising demonstrator affectionately tossed...
Nobel-prizewinning Physicist William B. Shockley, 63, was supposed to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Leeds on the 25th anniversary of his participation in the invention of the transistor. But Leeds had second thoughts because of Shockley's controversial view that blacks are genetically disadvantaged and a eugenic threat to civilization. Shockley was philosophical. "If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade...
Test Center. This dream city is the brainchild of freewheeling Scientist Athelstan Spilhaus, an oceanographer, physicist and meteorologist. In the eight years since he first got the idea, MXC has drawn support from Twin Cities business leaders, the federal and state governments, and top thinkers like R. Buckminster Fuller, Economist Walter Heller and Urbanologist Harvey Perloff. Their combined efforts are aimed at starting construction...
President Bok's appointment of Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics, as Acting Dean Ford's legislative counterpart, will thrust the relatively unknown physicist into the public spotlight, a position he usually shuns...
...Just how much exercise is right for the cardiac patient? Faced with this question, doctors have searched for easy means for the patient to determine when his heart has exceeded a safe rate. A team of German researchers now appears to have found one. Physicist Hans Stephan and Drs. Hans Stoboy and Adalbert Schaede have developed a device called a Cardiomed that monitors the working heart and tells when it is not beating at the proper rate. Not much larger than a billfold, the battery-operated gadget checks on the heart through electrodes stuck on the chest. It emits...