Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...amounts of radioactivity that people carry in their bodies from natural causes-e.g., from cosmic rays-is "very much larger" than those derived from H-bomb fallout, replied Dr. Willard Libby, top nuclear chemist and lone scientist member of the Atomic Energy Commission, last week. Furthermore, the amount of radiation produced in humans by the fallout is "less than 1% of the maximum permissible concentration" and there is general agreement that it would take "larger concentrations, perhaps tenfold greater," to produce harmful results. Libby provided a striking example: the present dosage of strontium 90 in the bones of children...
...reappoint Thomas E. Murray to the Atomic Energy Commission when Murray's term expires June 30. To Washingtonians the President's decision will come as no surprise since Manhattan Millionaire Murray, the remaining Democratic member of the five-man AEC (down to four since the death of Scientist John von Neumann), has long been at loggerheads with AEC Chairman Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss...
...businessmen, a blackboard is something they once scribbled on, long, long ago in school. But for one U.S. industry, the old blackboard is as necessary as slide rules and secretaries. The industry is electronics, currently the fastest-growing major U.S. industry ($11.5 billion this year), whose brainy young scientist-businessmen sit in air-conditioned offices sipping coffee and chalking abstruse formulas. One of the fruits of their doodles-a new family of miniaturized electronic components to do much of the work of standard vacuum tubes-so fascinated Business Researcher Claudine Tillier and Picture Researcher Christina Pappas, who worked on this...
...Soviet tests (which one Japanese scientist declares to be more than twice as "dirty" as U.S. H-bomb explosions) temporarily focused Japanese wrath on Russia rather than Britain. The fallout, increased by a week-long drizzle of rain, was the heaviest ever recorded in Japan, and the government broadcast a warning: "Cover all open wells; do not drink rain water...
...foreign nations. Though no moneymaker, it has as impressive a board of advisers as any corporation going-former Senator William Benton, Economist Beardsley Ruml, onetime Assistant Secretary of Defense Anna M. Rosenberg, Psychologist George Stoddard, President Robert Hutchins of the Fund for the Republic, and Social Scientist Ralph Tyler. Last week it was sporting another big name: Chairman-elect Adlai E. Stevenson...