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...where vibratory motions of the atoms cease. Generations of physics students have been told that nothing can get colder than 0° K. It gave them a comfortable feeling that here at least was a final point beyond which they need not worry. Recently in Manhattan, Professor Norman F. Ramsey of Harvard University told a meeting of the American Ordnance Association about a new set of laws that must be worked out to deal with a temperature range that reaches below absolute zero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Colder than Coldest | 12/26/1955 | See Source »

Government attorney John M. Harrington, Jr. '43, objected strongly to the admission of the tape recordings after the testimony of John Molloy, program director of Station WNAC, which made the tapes, and Norman F. Ramsey, Jr., professor of Physics, who paid for them. Aldrich said he agreed partially with the objections...

Author: By Victor K. Mcelheny, | Title: Kamin's Lawyers Win Fight To Admit Tape as Evidence | 11/4/1955 | See Source »

Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, and a former colleague of Rabi, agreed with the visiting lecturer about the importance of the discovery and raised the question of whether "we are to believe that there are the same number of negative and positive protons in the universe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rabi States New Discovery Could Change View of Universe's Nature | 10/20/1955 | See Source »

Located at ... City Hall is Milles' memorial statue in the form of an Indian God of Peace, dedicated to the war veterans of Ramsey County. As a group of Indians crouch about their council fire, smoking their pipe of peace, the smoke rising heavenward takes the form of an Indian God of Peace, one hand holding a peace pipe, the other extended in a gesture of friendliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1955 | 7/18/1955 | See Source »

...reincarnated. He owns a race horse and receives the public at a smart new house on a hillside in Darjeeling, India. For the ghosting of an autobiography he cannot read he commands the services of one of the most practiced and high-priced writers in the mountaineering business. James Ramsey Ullman (The White Tower, The Age of Mountaineering) has filled Tenzing's book with plenty of good writing, cliff hangs, avalanches, frostbite and windy nights on bald mountains. The result is polished, often deeply moving, but rather on the twicetold side. Tenzing, however, has saved for this book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia's Lindbergh | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

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