Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JONNY QUEST (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). A new animated-cartoon series devised by Hanna-Barbera (The Flintstones) about the eleven-year-old son of a scientist-explorer. Premi...
Robert E. Wilson liked to joke that "I pose as a businessman when talking to scientists and as a scientist when talking to businessmen." The confusion was natural. Over the years Wilson was a research chemist, the chairman of the board of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, a member of the Atomic Energy Commission, chairman of the American Oil Co. Occupational pigeonholers marked him down as an applied scientist - a term that in Wilson's case meant a complete man using his varied talents completely...
Down with Monopoly. A double-threat scientist-administrator on the Atomic Energy Commission from 1960 until early this year, Wilson fought to end Government monopoly in the atomic-energy field-and was largely responsible for legislation, passed last month, permitting private ownership of atomic materials...
Winding up his stint as an AECommissioner, Wilson got a grateful letter from President Johnson: "Your outstanding performance and the high esteem with which you are regarded as a scientist, a businessman and a public servant must be a source of satisfaction to you as your years of public service come to an end." But somehow Bob Wilson never settled down. Last month he journeyed to Geneva to work as an adviser to the U.S. delegation at the U.N. International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. There, last week, still in the public service, he died of a stroke...
Guinn's scientists simply irradiated samples of the various paints and projected the resulting radiation patterns on an oscilloscope screen. Components of the two blue and the two brown paint samples were so alike that no one could dispute their common origin. At Woodward's trial last month, a General Atomic scientist testified that it was "99.98% certain" that the tire iron came from Woodward's car, "99.999% certain" that it was used to jimmy the door. A jury quickly found Defendant Woodward guilty as charged. Before the advent of N.A.A. he would almost surely have gone...