Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prize for physics went to Hans Albrecht Bethe, 61, mainly for discoveries during the 1930s concerning the energy production of stars. A German-born scientist who fled the rising Third Reich and who has been teaching at Cornell University since 1935, Bethe (pronounced Baytuh) theorized that the inordinate energy emitted by stars results from two protracted nuclear processes during which hydrogen fuses into helium. Similar research placed Bethe in the front rank of atomic-era scientists such as Edward Teller and Robert Oppenheimer who gave birth to the Abomb...
Some of the later episodes will center on scientist George Washington Carver, poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, musician W.C. Handy, and Frederick Douglass, greatest of all abolitionists...
FRED LEAVITT'S a nice guy. A shy, gentle, intelligent person, he immediately strikes one as being some kind of intellectual. Put a few more years, a few more pounds on him, and he'd make a passable Mr. Chips. In reality, he's a scientist...
...course, the effects of stories sometimes take a wry turn. There is the case of the French scientist whose discovery of a new painkilling drug was reported in Medicine two years ago. Ever since, he has been bothered by letters from all over the world from people who hope that he can ease their pain. The really serious ones make him sad, and the hypochondriacs tend to irritate him. He has, indeed, heard of some strange cases-like the man who wrote that in all his life he has had only one night's sleep, and then he dreamed...
Healey has remained noncommittal. "No decision has yet been made on the use ^L Aldabra for defense purposes," he said. But the scientists were obvious ly unwilling to settle for bureaucratic vagueness. One biologist dryly noted that, of course, the giant land tortoise could always survive in the London Zoo. "The Union Jack flying over Aldabra is evidence of our custodianship of a biological treasure house," the magazine New Scientist reminded Healey. "It is not a license to kill...