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...right to leave and return to his country is a fundamental right of man," declared Soviet Physicist Valery Chalidze on his arrival in the U.S. last month. In a highly unusual and seemingly liberal action, the Soviets had allowed Chalidze, an eloquent spokesman for the Russian civil rights movement, to travel to the U.S. for a monthlong lecture tour (TIME, Dec. 18). But early one morning last week, a consular official from the Soviet embassy in Washington, Yuri Galishnikov, called on Chalidze at his Manhattan hotel and amiably asked him to identify himself. When Chalidze handed over his passport, Galishnikov...
...what may have been a canny move by the Kremlin to quiet unfavorable American opinion, a leader of the Russian Democratic Movement was allowed to tour U.S. universities this month. He is Physicist Valery Chalidze, 34, who called for amnesty for all Soviet political prisoners in a speech at Washington's Georgetown University last week. Other leading Russian intellectuals and artists, including Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and Physicist Andrei Sakharov, have made similar appeals. Determined to return to Russia, where he is regarded by the KGB as a dangerous troublemaker, Chalidze told TIME: "Even if the Soviet authorities will only...
Gravity Waves. Recording those tiny variations on the moon could go a long way toward settling an argument currently raging among physicists. Several years ago, University of Maryland Physicist Joseph Weber astonished his colleagues with the announcement that he had detected gravity waves. Predicted by Einstein's 1916 general theory of relativity, such waves are the vehicles presumed to transmit gravitational energy across space. Critics have contended that Weber's detectors probably sensed some of the earth's own rumblings. But if sudden variations in gravity are now simultaneously picked up by a detector on the moon...
Distinctive Field. The idea comes from Physicist Kurt Greenwood of the British textile industry's Shirley Institute in Manchester; he has been studying ways of reducing the static electricity built up by walking across carpets and other floor coverings. Greenwood knew that static electricity may be generated wherever a shoe rubs against a rug. His research had further established that the charge can persist for hours (particularly on some synthetic rugs in dry air) and that the shape of the charged area conforms to the shape of the sole and heel that created it. Those facts were of particular...
...American scientists last week made a clean sweep of the 1972 Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry. One of them, Physicist John Bardeen, 64, who shared the physics award, became the first person ever to win two Nobel Prizes in the same field; in 1956 he was awarded his first Nobel Prize as co-inventor of the transistor...