Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Raoul Dautry, then French armaments minister, had tried to justify this situation with Gallic sophistication: "Our atomic scientists are men of all political views. You cannot control what goes on in their minds. Who knows what a man really means when he tells a girl he loves her?" Last week, Joliot-Curie left no doubt in anybody's mind about what he meant. At a Communist Party meeting he declared that he would not collaborate with the U.S. on atomic-energy matters. Said he -"We Communists know that the Soviet Union will not be the first...
Rainmaker at Work. The great cloud-milking experiment was born last month when Mayor William O'Dwyer remembered how Nobel Prizewinning Scientist Irving Langmuir had caused 320 billion gallons of rain (enough to fill New York's reservoirs with 60 billion gallons to spare) to fall on arid New Mexico by burning $20 worth of silver iodide. Scientist Langmuir, just retired from General Electric Research Laboratory at 68, did not feel up to taking on New York's job himself, but on his recommendation the city hired as its chief rainmaker a 35-year-old, Harvard-trained...
...Nevis cyclotron is not only the most powerful; it even sounds different. Like most big atomic machines, it is guarded by Geiger counters to measure its radioactivity. Counters often ring a bell at intervals. An imaginative young scientist fixed the ones at Nevis to make a woeful sound like a baby chick that has lost its mother...
Ramsey, a 34-year-old nuclear physicist, came to the University in 1947 after active government work on atomic energy projects during the war. He has held positions as Expert Consultant to the Secretary of War, Associate Development Head of the Los Alamos Project, and Chief Scientist at the Atomic Energy Advance Base at Tinian in the Marianas...
...study of the Communist Party is being conducted "not only from the point of view of the political scientist but also from those of the economist, psychologist, and sociologist." Thus such studies as "party Policies in Literature" and "An Interpretive Study of Marxist Method" take their place alongside specialized investigations of purely political events...