Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Course reduction for an unsupervised study project should be discontinued, and "99" courses expanded, so that tutors would receive teaching credit for their work, and not help only as a favor to a student. And departments should provide easy access to tutors competent in a student's field of interest...
...medical columnist) Walter Alvarez, he studied at the University of Chicago, switched, on the advice of a favorite professor, from chemistry to physics, took his Ph.D. in 1936. In the early years of World War II he worked at M.I.T.'s Radiation Laboratory, moved on to the Manhattan Project in 1943, Los Alamos in 1944-45. He flew in a B-29 half a mile behind the plane that dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, later lined up against J. Robert Oppenheimer's refusal to speed development of the hydrogen bomb. Light-haired, blue-eyed, easygoing, he sports...
...element 94 (plutonium), has since played a heavy role in finding subsequent elements (through No. 101). Although he finds little time nowadays for following football very closely (he is faculty representative to the Pacific Coast Conference), Seaborg does play golf (low 90s), swims in his backyard pool. One current project: search for the next synthetic element (No. 103). "The inner rewards," says he, "are very great. Science is the new frontier, and we all like adventure...
After a typical run of humdrum assignments as a U.S. Public Health Service surgeon, Van Slyke found himself at World War II's end investigating the potency of penicillin as a treatment for venereal disease. When the price of penicillin plummeted, freeing money previously earmarked for this project. Van Slyke was assigned to distribute $400,000 in grants for medical research. With this modest sum, Van Slyke began in 1946 by cautiously asking medical schools whether they could tse any money. He was promptly deluged with requests, and Congress gradually upped its medical research approprialtion...
Despite hints from individual Russians, there has been no official Russian promise to bring the dog back to earth, either dead or alive. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of U.S. Project Vanguard, thinks the Russians never intended to. Even if already dead, the dog cannot merely be pushed into space like the dog in Jules Verne's From the Earth to the Moon (see cut). Rocket "braking" is necessary. Dr. Hagen believes that the weight of Sputnik 11 is not enough to include the rocket fuel that would be needed to check the speed of the satellite and bring...