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...Harvard's leading scientists, Norman F. Ramsey, an experimental physicist, and Julian S. Schwinger, a theoretical physicist, will become Higgins Professors of Physics on July...
...such test, the snooper successfully detected silver ore particles that scientists had "seeded" in the ground at Greenbelt, Md. In another test, near Mineral, Va., the snooper determined that natural deposits of silver in an old zinc-mining area were too small to exploit economically. Geological Survey Physicist Frank Senftle, who headed the group that developed the snooper, believes that commercial models can be available for use as early as this fall, at a cost of between $25,000 and $35,000 per unit...
...German Physicist Philipp Lenard wrote a paper describing how the splashing of falling water charges the surrounding air with electricity. Recently, Welsh-born Physicist Edward Pierce decided to check out Lenard's theory that each waterdrop's skin of negative ions is stripped off and discharged into the atmosphere as the drop breaks up when it hits a surface. At first, Pierce haunted waterfalls in the Yosemite Valley. Suddenly he realized that "many of Lenard's experiments could be performed in a bathroom, and have indeed been constantly operating in American bathrooms...
Luna's discovery of high concentrations of electrons near the lunar surface caused an immediate flurry of press reports about possible danger to future manned moon missions. These were quickly brushed aside as "unfounded speculation" by University of Iowa Physicist James Van Allen, discoverer of the earth's radiation belts. Electrons with the energies reported by Luna were so "soft," he said, that they "could not even penetrate a thick piece of tissue paper...
...goes well, a satellite will be launched into a 500-mile-high polar orbit. It will carry a virtually perfect gyroscope-one that is almost completely free from friction, gravitational pull or magnetic fields. If the general relativity theory is correct, according to calculations made by Stanford University Physicist Leonard Schiff, the gyroscope should precess-change the direction of its axis of rotation-about 1/500th of a degree each year that it is in orbit. This gradual and almost imperceptible change would be caused by the continuous passage of the gyroscope through Einsteinian space, which is "warped" by the earth...