Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appears that the much-derided sonic treatment of crops may indeed be a sound agricultural technique. A Canadian woman scientist working under carefully controlled laboratory conditions has found that sound-treated wheat seedlings grow three times as large as those given conventional care...
Historian Irving argues that lack of governmental support was the basic cause of the Nazis' nuclear failure. But some of his anecdotes suggest that the German scientists themselves were at fault. After Physicist Walther Bothe calculated that graphite would not be an effective "moderator"-the material that slows down neutrons in a reactor-no German scientist thought to question him. Instead, the Germans turned to heavy water for a moderator. However, they were hamstrung for the remainder of the war when an Allied sabotage team crippled the world's only heavy-water plant, at Vemork in occupied Norway...
...astronomy professor, Liller roomed all four years in Adams House with a history major. He sees diversity as one of the main strengths of the House and of the College. Though he follows an English professor, retiring master Reuben Brower, he hopes that his being a scientist will not reshape Adams' image...
...quavering image of the computer as truth giver. The hero, too, is brought up to date. The Alexandria Quartet was in large part about an artist's struggle for freedom within his culture; Tune, which in Latin means next," deals with the similar struggles of a scientist. Beneath its lush trappings and Mediterranean settings, the novel is basically a study of the ironies and ambiguities that result when a man tries to stand apart from society...
...location of dams. Eventually, in addition to a role in mineral exploration, the projectiles may be used to find water, to place deep-sea anchors, and to bury radioactive fuels re-entering the atmosphere after the flights of nuclear rockets. Shot from unmanned spacecraft orbiting distant planets, one Sandia scientist proposes, the projectile probes could even help determine if there are water tables beneath the surface of Mars and Venus...