Word: rossi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a House investigating subcommittee after the subcommittee called him "one of the weakest links" in the U.S. security chain. Early in the atomic program, Oppenheimer got a job at the University of California Radiation Laboratory for a young physicist with a known Communist background, one Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz. In 1943 the Army notified Lomanitz that he was to be drafted. Dr. Condon wrote Oppenheimer about this, as Oppenheimer put it, "in a great sense of outrage." Oppenheimer protested Lomanitz draft call (to no avail), and later tried to get Lomanitz released from the Army to return...
Although the majority of the educated persons in the South favor the decision, and have been expecting it for some time, the immediate results may not be encouraging. Peter H. Rossi, assistant professor of Sociology, stated that "there are, of course, alegal, yet not necessarily illegal, methods for practicing segregation." Rossi pointed out that in the North, even more so than in the South, segregation is practiced by "restricting" residential districts. "The decision may result in an unmixing of the now-mixed residential areas in parts of the South...
...further serious threat to the successfulness of the edict is the problem of the resultant unemployment situation created among the teachers themselves. "There is much apprehension among the Negro school personnel," Rossi maintained. "Especially above the teacher level, among the principals and superintendents, the threat of 'white supremacy' is still very strong." The consolidation of the two-system school system in many states means that many teachers would find themselves out of jobs...
Professor Rossi believes that the original particle may have been an antiproton that hit a normal proton in the brass plate and annihilated it. Apparently the encounter produced nothing but energy, and it produced too much (about 1.3 billion electron-volts) to be accounted for by any other process...
...such an outlaw particle could have come from. One colorful theory holds that somewhere in the universe there may be stars or whole galaxies made of reversed matter. From them escape antiprotons that wander through space, perhaps for billions of years, until they hit normal protons (as in Professor Rossi's brass plate) and are annihilated...