Word: planck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portrait. The sequence is one of the most dramatic moments in a film titled The Artificial Paradises, which will be shown on West German television next week. The guiding genie behind the tests was Dr. Richard Hartmann, a Munich psychiatrist and art dealer, working in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry...
...England. Normally a man of dry, underplayed wit, he became so depressed by the appalling application of fission that his colleagues feared that he might commit suicide. Once back in Germany, Hahn struggled to rebuild the shattered remains of his old institute as president of its successor, the Max Planck Society. He also became an outspoken foe of atomic weapons. In 1957, joining the 17 other prominent West German scientists in the Göttingen Manifesto, he vowed never to take part in nuclear research for military purposes...
...beard glowing in the spotlight, the white-haired director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Physiology of Behavior punctuated his speech with comments on nest-building jackdaws, the creeping amoeba, and the business world...
Konrad Lorenz, Director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for the Physiology of Behavior, author of On Aggression, and pioneer in the study of animal behavior patterns will lecture on "The Innate Bases of Learning" at 8 p.m. Thursday in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...Clinical Professor of Gynecology, Emeritus and a pioneer in birth control (LL.D.); John H. Van Vleck, former dean of the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics and a forerunner in discoveries in quantum theory, who received a Doctor of Science; and chemist Manfred Eigen, division director at Max Planck Institute for Physical Chemistry at Goettingen, Germany, a pioneer in perfecting techniques to measure chemical reactions to a minute fraction of a second, who also received a Doctor of Science...