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...Russians arrived in force with 30 chainsmoking technicians to set up their exhibits and 150 other members in their delegation. The British, highly skilled in atomics, flooded down from London. Besides U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss and four other chief delegates (Dr. Libby. Nobel Prizewinner I. I. Rabi of Columbia, Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Cancer Research Institute at the New England Deaconess Hospital), the U.S. sent a Government delegation of 319 scientists and technicians, plus an unofficial drove of scientists, business men and industrialists...
...ever ceased to make fundamental principles the entire content and purpose of its education. As a result, it occupies a special place in the esteem of scientists and engineers. Though it may have rivals, it has no superior anywhere in the world. "Other places," says Nobel Laureate Isidor Rabi of Columbia University, "have good people. But at Caltech, they are all good...
Leadership v. Authority. Through those five years, DuBridge ruled with an easy mixture of tact and firmness. He not only kept his freewheeling scientists happy, he also managed the military. Says H. Rowan Gaither Jr., now president of the Ford Foundation, "He exerted not authority, but leadership." Adds Physicist Rabi: "He believed in his people and what they could do. He made the people there become great men because he believed them great." Most important, he would back up his scientists against the most stubborn military conservatism. When Physicist Luis Alvarez invented G.C.A., he had little to support...
...Attack. Among those who have attacked the book since publication are former AEC Chairman Gordon Dean and many leading atomic scientists, including Enrico Fermi and Hans Bethe. The comment of Dr. I. I. Rabi, present chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee, is a sample: "A sophomoric science-fiction tale, to be taken seriously only by a psychiatrist...
However, it was generally agreed that halters and bathing suits are not appropriate for wear on College grounds. "The rule is sensible, considering that we are in the middle of the city," Margaret J. Rabi '56 said...