Word: polyani
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Herschbach, Polyani and their colleagues stress that the techniques they developed are still too young to yield practical applications...
Since their initial discoveries, Lee and Polyani have continued to refine and broaden their experimental techniques, colleagues said. They said the work also has a strong attraction for young scientists...
...months passed with no action, despite intercession by two U.S. Senators. Eleven months later-six weeks after the Chicago appointment was to begin, Polyani was forced to withdraw his acceptance, but was fortunately able to remain at the University of Manchester. Chicago accordingly changed its offer to a temporary chair, and Polyani revised his application to ask for a nonimmigrant or temporary visa...
...says, 'the vice-consul expressed uneasiness when I said that, while I had no idea that the (League) was a Communist organization, I would still have addressed them if I had known it. It appears that in his view, trying to convert them would have been a subversive activity!'" Polyani's speech before the group was severely censured by its secretary as a vicious "attack on Soviet scientists...
Then, in June, 1952, 18 months after application, Polyani was turned down flat, because, the consul said, of "certain political beliefs or activities; and membership in, or affiliation with, certain organizations." And the McCarran-Walter act gave Polyani no right to appeal from this decision...