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Most of the class looked at the problem with dejection, but the tall, skinny boy with unruly blond hair started scratching on a piece of paper. In five minutes he had the correct answer. This week the smart boy, now 34-year-old Professor Kenneth S. Pitzer of the University of California, will step into what is now the most important scientific job in the world, replacing Harvard's Dr. James Fisk as director of research of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Problems of Management. Under Dr. Pitzer's control will come the chain of laboratories which the AEC is building throughout the country. Much of his work will be top-secret, concerned with atom bombs and other nuclear weapons. An even greater responsibility of Pitzer's will be to make the atom serve-as well as threaten-civilization...
...Pitzer's most difficult problems will be to persuade the best U.S. scientists to work for the AEC or in cooperation with it. Many of them dislike the thought of Government work, with its reputation for unimaginative plodding. Others refuse to get mixed up with the development of military weapons in peacetime...
...only man on the all-conquering 1944 squad, who (his coach said) never made a mistake all season. Captain, guard and off-season wrestler is 190-lb. Jack Green. The ends are manned by 6 ft. 1 in. Hank Foldberg, a music nut, and 6 ft. 1 in. Dick Pitzer, who likes to make as well as eat apple...