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...billion electron volts (GeV).* That was not only the most powerful beam ever achieved by an accelerator, but also far surpassed the former record achieved by the Russians in their 76 GeV machine outside Moscow. Just back from congressional appropriations hearings in Washington, NAL'S beleaguered director, Physicist Robert R. Wilson, happily passed out champagne in goblets saved for the occasion and emblazoned with...
...neighbors in La Jolla, Calif., British-born Margaret Burbidge is an attractive woman in her 40s with a quiet, self-effacing manner. To her fellow scientists, she is also one of the foremost astronomers in the world, the wife of Physicist Geoffrey Burbidge, and the explorer of stars, galaxies and quasars. Yet, for all her success, the female half of the scientific team of B² (B square)-as their colleagues call the Burbidges-has faced many of the difficulties usually experienced by women who dare to venture into the male-dominated world of science...
...Explanation. Mrs. Burbidge's persistence paid off scientifically, too. Out of her careful spectral observations of a varying abundance of certain elements in stars, the Burbidges and their collaborators, Nuclear Physicist William Fowler and Astrophysicist Fred Hoyle, were able to develop what has become known as the "B² FH" theory (after the final initials of its four proponents). It provided a totally new explanation of how elements are formed in the fiery nuclear furnaces of stars...
...illustration, Sagan and Drake-helped by Sagan's wife, Linda, an artist-chose figures of two representative earthlings (see A in diagram). Their height is indicated by the scale drawing of Pioneer in the background (B). The message contains a more subtle dimensional clue (C) that an extraterrestrial physicist should quickly recognize: an atom of hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, which is shown undergoing a change of energy state (indicated by the different orientations of the orbiting electrons on the circles). During this process, the atom gives off a pulse of radiation with a wave length...
...protests is Author Vladimir Bukovsky, who has spent seven of his 29 years in various prisons and asylums; in January he was sentenced again, to seven years in a labor camp, plus five years in exile from Moscow. Last week 52 leading Soviet intellectuals, headed by Physicist Andrei Sakharov, asked the United Nations to seek amnesty for Bukovsky. That is unlikely, since his "crime" was passing to the West documentation of how psychiatry is used to suppress dissent-specifically, the case histories of six political protesters held in Soviet mental wards...