Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race to put scientific discoveries to practical and profitable use, many a British scientist was convinced that Britain had fallen far behind the field. Last Week the London Observer thought it had found both the cause and the cure. Wrote the Observer...
Greenglass is no scientist (at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute he flunked eight courses out of eight), and some of his testimony made little scientific sense. He did reveal, however, the important fact that the bomb was set off by an "implosion"; i.e., an explosion that directs much of its force inwards (see diagram...
Unlike the rest of his family, he was not an outstanding scientist, but carried on family tradition with his many gifts to the University Observatory and Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the choice. As chief civilian scientist in the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Waterman was largely responsible for the extraordinary respect which non-Government scientists feel toward ONR. Its ultimate objective was to develop weapons, but it did not limit itself to gadgeteering. Realizing that really new weapons can grow only from new theory, it encouraged all sorts of basic research, much of it far removed from direct weapons work...
Atomic authorities are still baffled by Scientist-Spy Klaus Fuchs, who has been locked in his British prison for twelve months of his 14-year sentence. As a trusted insider in both U.S. and British atom-bomb laboratories, Fuchs had an enormous amount of secret and vital information. He insists that he transmitted his knowledge to the Russians. If he did, the secrets might as well be published openly, with benefit to all Western scientists...