Word: planck
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...Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, director of the genetics division of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Entwicklungsbiologie in Tubingen, Germany...
Heisenberg, who headed the Max Planck Institute after the war and remained active until his death in 1976, may have given his own answer on the day he learned of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. In a remark picked up by a hidden British microphone, he said he and his team had not had the "moral courage" to ask for the thousands of workers and huge resources that would have been necessary. The price of failure would have been high for all of them...
Legal scholars believe that a special tribunal, rather than any single nation's courts, would be the appropriate venue. Says Jochen Frowein, of the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg: "A Security Council resolution setting out in detail how existing provisions on war crimes shall be applied is the only promising avenue...
...sounding an 11th-hour warning about the explosives that Iraqi soldiers have planted around most of Kuwait's 700 oil wells and 21 processing plants. If those devices are set off, the subsequent conflagration could create "a nuclear-winter-like situation," asserts Paul Crutzen, director of Germany's Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Jordanian experts say the wells could burn 10 million bbl. of oil a day, releasing a vast cloud of black smoke into the stratosphere. Such a cloud has the potential to screen sunlight, reduce temperatures and damage crops throughout the northern hemisphere. Not all experts agree with...
...wrote that if the center chooses Mt. Graham to house its telescope, Harvard-Smithsonian Center would use its influence with the U.S. Forest Service to allow development of Emerald Peak. In exchange, Harvard-Smithsonian would receive telescope equipment or viewing time on Arizonia's Max-Planck Radioastronomic Submillimeter...