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Trinity was the name chosen by Physicist Robert Oppenheimer, scientific leader of the project, for the site of the assembly and testing of the bomb that would bring Japan to her knees. "Oppie," as he was known to his colleagues, was relaxing over a volume of John Donne's poems when word reached him that the Air Force had granted a site for the test in the Jornada, 55 miles northwest of Alamogordo. Asked to suggest a code name for the site, Oppie glanced at the line he had just read...
When the full set of Martian pictures taken by the spaceship Mariner IV was released last week, Mariner's earth-bound master, Physicist William H. Pickering, had the White House itself as his gallery. President Johnson was on hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them...
Died. Alvin Cushman Graves, 55, U.S. nuclear physicist and director of the Test Division at Los Alamos, a pioneer in atomic research, who nearly lost his life in a laboratory accident in 1946, when he absorbed 200 roentgens of radiation (he suffered loss of hair, a cataract and temporary sterility), in 1948 became director of the U.S. atomic testing program in the Pacific, later headed a long series of experimental atomic projects including Operation Ivy, the 1952 top-secret thermonuclear explosion at Eniwetok; of a heart attack; in Del Norte, Colo...
Ritchie, though, deserves much of the credit for the success of this show. The Physicist is immensely difficult to produce successfully, because Duerrenmatt clearly wants it to be an educational, as well as a theatrical experience, a any good post-Brechtian European playwright would. But he, like Brecht, is a natural dramatist; you automatically empathize with these wacky . So Duerrenmatt could hardly accept idea that an audience must be made to detach itself from the play completely -- forced not to empathize with the characters, but only to think about them...
...refraction of starlight as it passed through turbulent regions of the earth's atmosphere. But they were never able to establish the existence of a particular region or the exact meteorological conditions involved in the effect. An experiment by the Sandia Corp. of Albuquerque, N. Mex., reports Physicist Craig C. Hudson in Nature, has finally confirmed the occurrence of the twinkle layer in the outer atmosphere...