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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whose Responsibility? But Bob Taft's case looked something like a dressed-up version of the other attacks. What he called the "Lilienthal report" was actually the combined product of such coauthors as Atomic Scientist Robert Oppenheimer, Bell Telephone's Chester Barnard, Monsanto Chemical's Dr. Charles A. Thomas. It had been approved by the State Department's special committee on atomic energy-which included such men as Harvard's James B. Conant, Major General Leslie R. Groves and onetime Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy. In the words of the report itself...
...ttingen last week, cheerful, bushy-browed Dr. Werner Heisenberg, a top German physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize, said that Russia had made a standing offer of $6,000 a year to any German atomic scientist who would work for the U.S.S.R...
...League of Nations days, scientists who visited Geneva knew her as a plump, black-eyed Russian physiologist named Lina Stern. She loved to putter in her laboratory all day and dance all night. A brilliant scientist, Lina was already a full professor (of physiological chemistry) at the University of Geneva. Friend of many a globe-trotting academician, she spoke fluent Russian, French and English. In 1925, fun-loving Physiologist Stern decided to go to Moscow, where, she said, she could pursue science in "a society built on scientific principles...
Paris-born Scientist du Noüy, 63, has served as an associate member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of the biophysics division of the Pasteur Institute, director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. Three of his previous books* won the University of Lausanne's 1944 Arnold Reymond Prize as the most important contribution to scientific philosophy in a decade...
...there are few other similarities between Dr. du Noüy's private religion and that of Christians. As is common among God-seeking scientists, the Deity becomes a Hypothesis with an odd name (in this case: telefinality). Christ seems to be a man born ahead of his time and Salvation is the evolution of the human species into a superrace. Scientist du Noüy regards the second chapter of Genesis as an esoteric presentation of his own view of creation...