Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bloembergen conceived the first practical solid state maser in 1956. The first operational version was completed in December, 1956 by a Bell Telephone scientist...
...accountants to ride herd over every research project to help determine whether expenses exceed potential results. Two weeks ago, with accountants' recommendations, Avco dropped one developmental program, assigned another to a licensee and beefed up a third with more money -all within three days. "Money means nothing to scientists," says one management spokesman, who happily recalls the occasion when one budget watcher snagged a scientist's purchase order for an $8,500 digital ohmmeter, told him to borrow one from another Avco division. (He did.) At the same time, Avco has cracked down on high-stepping traveling executives...
...adapted from a scientist's notes at Esso Research and Engineering Company P.O. Box 45B, Linden, New Jersey...
...scholars convened at an informal dinner meeting to inaugurate Radcliffe's experimental program. Among the first group of part-time scholars appointed in June are three historians, a lawyer, a musician, a philosopher, two poets, two painters, specialists in English, Swedish and Spanish literature, an art historian, a political scientist, an archaeologist and an educational psychologist. They range in age from the late twenties to the late fifties. Six of the scholars hold the A.M. degree, while seven have earned the Ph.D. as well. The rest have done graduate study except for one who has no formal college training...
Flying into Rio de Janeiro on a lecture tour, Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 57, irritably denied that he felt any guilt for serving as top scientist on the first A-bomb project. "I carry no weight on my conscience," insisted the white-haired director of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, whose security clearance for participation in U.S. nuclear development was withdrawn in 1954. "Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has now changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of government, not of scientists." But in the Oppenheimer scheme...