Word: tamm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...candidates see a federal judgeship less as a prestigious and challenging job than as very hard work for low pay. Senator Charles Percy has privately remarked that he has had to offer, the job to ten people just to get one. Says U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Edward Allen Tamm: "Federal judges are working harder than they ever did in private practice, but they never get their heads above water." Worn down by the work load, comparing their salaries ($54,500 to $57,500) with the six-figure incomes of really successful lawyers, a discouraging number of federal district...
...chosen profession." Young Andrei lost no time in mastering his: by 1942, having graduated with honors in physics from Moscow State University, he went to work in the war industry. After World War II, he studied with the theoretical physicist (and later Nobel laureate) Igor. Tamm. Soon he was at work on the Kremlin's No. 1 priority project: development of the Soviet Union's hydrogen bomb. "When I began working on this terrible weapon, I felt subjectively that I was working for peace, that my work would help foster a balance of power," Sakharov recalled years later...
Sakharov's top-secret assignment also included research on industrial uses for thermonuclear energy with Mentor Tamm. There was little life but science-and the mandatory state "supervision" that went with it. For all of the 18 years (1950-68) that he held his top-level security clearance, Sakharov was never without the shadow of a bodyguard, even when he slept or went swimming. There were, however, compensations. He won the Stalin Prize and was thrice awarded the country's highest civilian medal, the Order of the Red Banner of Labor. He was the youngest member ever elected...
...four conservative members are Edward Allen Tamm, 67, a Johnson appointee who once served as right-hand man to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover; George E. MacKinnon, 67, a longtime acquaintance of Richard Nixon; Roger Robb, 66, a Nixon appointee who used to represent Senator James Eastland of Mississippi; and Malcolm Richard Wilkey, 54, a former U.S. Attorney in Houston and onetime counsel for the Kennecott Copper Corp...
Died. Igor Tamm, 75, physicist and a leading libertarian within Soviet science; in Moscow. A critic of Kremlin attempts to police the scientific community, Tamm never joined the Communist Party. In 1958 he shared the Nobel Prize with two Soviet colleagues for discovering and explaining the "Cherenkov effect," the bluish glow that occurs when high-energy electrons pass through a transparent substance. Tamm's prominence among Russian theoretical physicists was based largely on his work blending quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity...