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During laboratory tests, Buehler and Physicist Frederick Wang reported in Ocean Engineering, they fashioned Nitinol into a complex shape at a high temperature, then cooled it and crushed it beyond recognition. When they heated the alloy again, it magically regained its original shape, "remembering" every curve and angle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metallurgy: The Alloy That Remembers | 9/13/1968 | See Source »

...order to care for her young children. Several people who expressed sympathy for the group were hauled off to the police station. The six arrested demonstrators, who were charged with "group activities in flagrant violation of public order," face up to three years in labor camps. Litvinov, a physicist, and Mrs. Daniel have a long record of dissent, having protested such other Soviet actions as the literary trial last January at which three intellectuals were handed stiff prison sentences for unorthodoxy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Defiance in Red Square | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

Died. George Gamow, 64, Russian-born theoretical physicist and astronomer; of a gastric hemorrhage; in Boulder, Colo. Although he worked in the arcane worlds of entropy and anti-numbers, Gamow had a rare gift for explaining science to the layman. While teaching at George Washington University, he put his clarity and common sense into nine books, including The Birth and Death of the Sun (1940) and The Creation of the Universe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Aug. 30, 1968 | 8/30/1968 | See Source »

...innate caution stopped him from making so bold a claim in public. "As nuclear chemists," Hahn and his young collaborator, Fritz Strassmann, wrote later, "we cannot bring ourselves to take this step, so contradictory to all the experience of nuclear physics." But Hahn's former coworker, Physicist Lise Meitner, had no such hesitation. Hearing of the experiment in exile in Sweden, she not only proclaimed that Hahn and Strassmann had achieved nuclear fission, but also calculated that each atom of uranium had released 20 million times as much energy as a comparable amount...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission | 8/9/1968 | See Source »

...eloquent defense of the necessity for intellectual freedom, the physicist is again contemptuous of Soviet leadership. The value of free speech, he says, was "clear to the philosophers of ancient Greece, and hardly anyone nowadays would have any doubts on that score. But after 50 years of complete domination over the minds of an entire nation, our leaders seem to fear even allusions to such a discussion. The crippling censorship of Soviet artistic and political literature has again been intensified. Dozens of brilliant writings cannot see the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Russian Physicist's Passionate Plea for Cooperation | 8/2/1968 | See Source »

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