Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First master of Churchill College will be Sir John Cockcroft, founder and head of Britain's atomic research center at Harwell. His qualifications are impressive: in 1932, while working at Cambridge under Lord Rutherford, he and Physicist E.T.S. Walton earned a Nobel Prize for pioneer work in splitting lithium atoms. Behind Sir Winston and Sir John in the project are many of Britain's industrial leaders, who have given most of the $8,000,000 already collected toward the $11 million the college is expected to cost. (U.S. firms have also made contributions, and Sir Winston has given...
Cambridge and Boston citizens and civic groups are preparing formal opposition to a plan that would put apartments, research firms or industrial buildings on a 40-acre platform over part of the Charles River Basin...
...major public-health menace, especially among patients already in hospitals for other reasons (TIME, March 24, Nov. 17), physicians will go to any lengths to trace the source of the trouble. Last week Dr. Harris D. Riley Jr. told a New Orleans meeting of the American Federation for Clinical Research how elementary gumshoe work had led disease detectives from Oklahoma City to a small-town hospital that was a hotbed of infection...
...Thor missiles, and on the triple-nosed Cree rocket, designed to eject parachutes at altitudes up to 150,000 ft. and speeds as high as 3,040 m.p.h. The goal: parachutes that will permit the return to earth of a man-carrying space capsule. In Cook's sprawling research labs, another team of engineers is working with its big cobalt 60 facility, testing for lubricating oils and ceramics that will withstand the heat and radiation produced by atomic aircraft. One of Cook's biggest jobs is to test missile and other weapon components. Explains one Cook engineer...
...taken time for Hasselhorn's team to turn its brainpower into profits, but research is paying off. Last week Hasselhorn announced that earnings for the first six months of fiscal '59 were $706,823 on sales of $18.3 million, up 567%. With a backlog of more than $20 million, he expects fiscal '59 sales of $36 million, earnings of more than $1.5 million...