Word: purely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboratory, Teller turns his mind to development of tactical-size, low-fallout thermonuclear weapons. In addition, he serves on the AEC's General Advisory Committee and the Air Force's Scientific Advisory Board, carries on his own strenuous public education campaign in media as far afield from pure science as the This Week Sunday supplement. Main topics: the survival value of underground bomb shelters, the need for continued nuclear-weapons tests, and, above all, the urgency of keeping ahead of Russia in science...
Professor Gamow at George Washington. Teller studied thermonuclear reactions (fusion of hydrogen nuclei) in the stars. That pure-science undertaking was to have momentous consequences: it led to the development of the H-bomb...
...trip to Peconic Bay was a turning point in his life-the start of his deep involvement in weaponry, war and politics. When he went to Columbia to work with Szilard on an atomic-energy project, Teller intended to go back to George Washington some day and resume his pure-science investigations into the minute structure of matter. That day never came. In 1943 he found himself heading to New Mexico to work at the Los Alamos A-bomb lab. Recalls Teller: "I was then on leave of absence from the Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory [another atomic project], where...
Science & Baseball. There is one underlying reason, in Edward Teller's view, for both the neglect of science education and the lack of appreciation for pure research: "A tone deafness toward science in our .society at large." If the public had an ear for science, then the taxpayers would be more willing to support pure research and science education, and more schoolchildren would get interested in science. Like many gifted scientists, Teller believes there is no special inborn talent for science, feels that talent is basically intense interest. The way to produce future scientists is to get them interested...
Fashion molders must create in the public a desire for pure fashions. "To achieve this aim, you will have not only to work but to struggle. You will receive the necessary strength from Heaven...