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...Gamow's interest in stellar reactions led Hans Bethe to calculate systematically all thermonuclear reactions. Says Teller: "Gamow had invented a new kind of game for the physicists, and Bethe proved to be the champion...
Despite his stellar role as a dupe, said Shaw, he had never joined the Communist Party. He was invited to join in 1946, assumed a "fantastic alias" to get into four "cloak & dagger" meetings, finally decided that he did not like the party's denial of free speech. Wiping tears from his eyes with both hands, Shaw said he had never meant to be disloyal. Said he: "I want to do everything I can, as I always have, to defend American institutions and American folkways. This country has been very kind to me. I started out as a minority...
...stellar list of tutors and officials, plus the extreme latitude in course selection more than compensates the devoted student for his extra time. Actually, practically any course given by any professor can count toward the eight course requirement. The department stresses hand-tailored programs...
Harvard astronomers this fall opened a new era of stellar exploration in America...
...sure so far how the bridges were formed. Zwicky suspects that they may be stellar debris that was scattered through space by near-collision between galaxies. Another possible theory: that they may be made of matter that was somehow outside when the galaxies contracted to their present forms...