Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrifying facts about atomic bombs-old-style and new-is that they can be delivered by stealth, set off without possibility of defense against them. Testifying before a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee last week, Nobel Prizewinning Atomic Scientist Harold C. Urey described how the Russians might use the atomic bomb-even without setting it off-to bend the U.S. or its allies to its purposes...
...testimony, Chief Magistrate Sir Lawrence Dunne remanded Fuchs to stand trial for treason at the Feb. 28 Old Bailey criminal sessions. The hearing at Bow Street had taken just two hours. The proceedings over, Fuchs walked out of the courtroom, back to his cell, looking like a harmless, nondescript scientist whom one might see in any laboratory. Despite his harmless look, despite repentance of a sort, Dr. Klaus Fuchs still bore Communism's indelible brand-NASH...
More an administrator than a scientist, Nominee Webster is an old hand at controlling the explosive combination of scientists in government. A graduate of the Naval Academy (1920), he took a master's degree at M.I.T., served six years in the Naval Construction Corps before he resigned to work for the New England Power Association. Later he served as chairman of the Military Liaison Committee, whose job is to keep the Pentagon within hailing distance of atomic developments, became a consultant for the Joint Research and Development Board, military ancestor...
This is certainly high on the list of the year's greater acts of mercy. The embryo scientist's life is hard enough, what with his long sessions in the lab and his meticulous business of experimenting. In offering the place for mid-day food and relaxation, the Chemical Society has made this scientist's day a little easier...
...good failure in science is always respectable," commented Popper. "The scientist who has taken the bold leap and has been proven wrong is no failure in the ordinary sense of the word...