Word: scientiste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nine Lives in the Red Army are brutal autobiographies of ex-Communists which make few of the usual apologies for their authors' past. N. M. Borodin, who went over to the British when he finally found himself in a tight spot in 1948, was a Cossack scientist. Mikhail Soloviev, who in World War II became a leader of the resistance fighting both the Germans and the Communists in White Russia, started out as a nimble-footed military journalist skilled in all the slippery tricks of Mos cow intrigue. Their stories, nightmarish documentaries of Communist Russia's bureaucratic life...
...ACCIDENT, by Dexter Masters (406 pp.; Knopf; $4), tensely tells the story of an atomic scientist who momentarily "lost control" during a tricky Los Alamos experiment and eventually dies of radiation disease.* "What's the dose, Charley?" asks Louis Saxl, lying quietly with his burned arms buried in ice. in preparation for an intended amputation. After two days of calculations, his colleagues have not yet determined whether his dosage is lethal, but Saxl suspects the answer to the question himself. On the third night his white-corpuscle count drops dangerously. He talks incoherently. The following day his fiancee...
...Scientist Louis Slotin, 35, of Winnipeg, Canada, dropped a screw driver during a similar experiment, died after eight days. The book is dedicated to his memory and to that of "more than one hundred thousand others...
...bureaucrat if, in 1945, the government had not summoned him to go overseas and study penicillin production. Shuttling back and forth between Russia, Britain and the U.S., Borodin forgot his resolution to stay clear of the Moscow meat grinder. His chief, Andrei Tretyakov, seemed to be on the skids.* Scientists in all fields were being purged. In London, Scientist Borodin was ordered to attend a lecture just to make sure that a fellow scientist read a paper about "rotten and decadent Western pseudoscience" exactly as it had been okayed. Suddenly Borodin balked and left the hall, pretending...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 will discuss his views on government regulation of scientific research and his own work as a scientist in a film of his interview with Edward R. Murrow, which was televised last fall. The 45 minute show begins at 8 p.m. in the Adams House dining hall, with no admission charge...