Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...MacLean-Burgess story with still more details gleaned and pieced together by its overseas staffers. World traces its story back to the late 1930s, when leftward-leaning young MacLean, then the ambitious foreign-office cub, and his future wife first made friends with an other young couple-Italian-born Scientist Bruno Pontecorvo, a favorite pupil of France's Physicist-Communist Frederic Joliot-Curie, and Pontecorvo's Swedish mistress...
...Both scientists and laymen had ideas, and all week long they aired them to their hearts' content. "In my opinion, even though I am a scientist." wrote Chemist A. L. Bacharach, "fissionable (an Americanism, I believe), is not admissible, though fissile is." Nonsense, cried a gentleman from Churchfields. Woodford, "it is unquestionable that 'fissionable' is objectionable to the impressionable; but to the knowledgeable it is unexceptionable." Added someone from Harrow, Middlesex: "Fissionable is fashionable, and surely reasonably admissible. Fissible is risible...
...strength of that success, the Atomic Energy Commission selected Westinghouse to build a "fullscale power reactor" capable of producing a minimum of 60,000 kw. of electrical energy for industrial use. Thus atomic power for industry, until 1953 merely a scientist's dream, had actually started. Onetime Investment Banker Lewis Strauss, new chairman of AEC, and his fellow commissioners agree that the best way to make atomic power plants an everyday reality is to end the Government monopoly and let private industry do more...
...Asking nature the right question in the right way-or recognizing a theoretical pattern in a tangled skein of experimental data-often has the effect of introducing an element of beauty and elegance into the scientist's work. Do we not, on occasion, refer to a 'beautiful theory' and an 'elegant experiment'? A great experiment seems to us, somehow, something which could not have been done differently . . . Taking away something or adding something only detracts from it. In this respect, a beautiful experiment can surely be classed with a great work...
...give up. Can you answer this sixty-four dollar question? Incidentally, there were two gentlemen sitting in front of us who seemed to be just as bewildered by the antics of the serious young Harvard scientist as we were...