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...neighbors recall that even when she was a kindergartner, she used to drill local youngsters in spelling and arithmetic. She won an A.B. in psychology from Bryn Mawr, where she met her husband, Dr. Joseph L. Horner, who was studying for an M.S. and is now a research physicist in Cambridge for the U.S. Department of Transportation. They have three children, born while both Homers were getting doctorates at the University of Michigan, and absolutely no problems about job conflicts. "Our careers just happened to mesh," says Horner. "I love woodworking and she loves cooking, so there's never...
...apart from her activities at Harvard. Horner also has family duties to share with her husband, physicist Joseph L. Horner. "It's just incredible," one of her women students remarked recently. "Every day she goes home to her children after working all morning, then comes back in the afternoon and does more work. She's phenomenal...
Protests. Virtually all scientists reject these views, of course, arguing that there is no sound evidence of intellectual differences based on race or of intellectual decline based on genetics. Nor has Shockley, a physicist, done any important research in biology or genetics. Presumably nobody would object very strongly if a noted physicist wanted to teach heretical theories about the origins of Shakespeare's plays, but the racist implications of Shockley's views have aroused fierce protests (as have the similar but more scholarly views of Psychologists Richard Herrnstein at Harvard and Arthur Jensen at Berkeley). Graffiti on Stanford...
None of Einstein's ideas have so fascinated the public and provoked such controversy among physicists as the so-called "clock paradox." One of the major predictions of the great physicist's Special Theory of Relativity, the paradox is based on the assumption that time passes more slowly for an object in motion than one at rest. Thus, if Einstein was correct, an astronaut traveling at extremely high speeds-say to a distant star and back-would age less during his trip than a twin brother who had remained on earth. Depending on the length of his mission...
Aging Slowly. Man has not yet advanced far enough technologically to stage such a test of relativity. But Physicist Joseph C. Hafele of Washington University in St. Louis and Astronomer Richard Keating of the U.S. Naval Observatory have apparently verified the clock paradox in a less dramatic fashion. Last October, carrying four extremely precise atomic clocks, they set off on two successive round-the-world plane trips to check the validity of Einstein's prediction (TIME, Oct. 18). Their scheme was elegantly simple. On the eastbound flight, their plane was traveling in the direction of the earth...