Word: rabinowitch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...giving off carbon dioxide, and biologists have assumed that the plant respires in sunlight, too. No one could prove it, however, because the effect of respiration (CO2 given off) is masked by the effect of photosynthesis (CO2 absorbed). The difficulty of measuring the daytime respiration rate is called "Rabinowitch's nightmare."* For years it haunted biologists, who compared it to the problem of finding out if the refrigerator light is shining after the door is closed. Last week Dr. John Decker of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden announced that he has punched a hole in Rabinowitch's problem...
...From Eugene Rabinowitch, authority on photosynthesis, now editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists...
Last week the Bulletin took a look a Russian science. Contrary to popular belief, wrote Editor Eugene Rabinowitch, the quality of science in Russia "is clearly on the upgrade ... It is wrong to think of contemporary Soviet science as being largely paralyzed by ... ignorant politicians." In many branches the Russians are turning out brilliant work. Warned the Bulletin: The U.S. should beware of "smug satisfaction with our own superiority . . . a belief that we can leave Soviet competition far behind simply by tightening secrecy and preventing leaks...
...slapped restrictions on the foreign circulation of U.S. technical journals, the Bulletin was in the forefront of the fight that got the order repealed. The Bulletin is well aware that the Russians read it to try to chart U.S. military and political thinking on the bomb. But Editor Rabinowitch thinks that the U.S. also gains by circulating the magazine in Russia. "It may be but a trickle of fresh water penetrating through the wall," said he, "but even the Russians cannot help being influenced or shaken in their Communist beliefs by what they read from the West...
...first A-bombs over Japan led to the founding of the Bulletin in 1945. Many scientists, appalled at the destruction, felt that they needed a magazine to help educate the world about the atom bomb. They raised enough money to print 500 copies of a semimonthly newsletter. Rabinowitch, a 51-year-old, Russian-born physical chemist who worked on the Chicago bomb project and now teaches at the University of Illinois, had no trouble finding writers. He has seven Nobel Prizewinners on his editorial board. Scientists like Albert Einstein, Harold C. Urey, Robert Oppenheimer and Leo Szilard write...