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Burger hopes to provoke criticism and debate, particularly among police themselves. Initial police reaction last week was strongly defensive. "Citizen review boards," snapped former FBI Agent Quinn Tamm, now executive director of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, "would be nothing more than useless superstructures on a system of justice which has proved as workable as any ever devised...
...Reports (7:308 p.m.).* Russian Physicist Igor Evgenievich Tamm, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1958, talks with Marvin Kalb in Moscow...
Writing in Izvestia, Russia's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Igor E. Tamm recently criticized this policy as no way to nurture real talent. Tamm fears that potential scientists are being lost to factory work, argues that competitive exams should determine university admission rather than the widely used standard of "political consciousness." Tamm also envies the freedom of U.S. professors to conduct pure research, contrasts it with the Soviet system. Russian professors carry a teaching load of 20 hours a week, far more than U.S. professors. The Russians thus fall behind their fields, says Tamm, and cannot teach as well...
Even as all Moscow reverberated with the volleys of invective loosed upon Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS), the Nobel Prize committee announced that the prize in physics had been awarded to Russian Physicists Pavel A. Cherenkov, Igor I. Tamm and Ilya M. Frank. Without a trace of embarrassment over its inconsistency, Soviet officialdom beamed, and nobody charged (as they had with Pasternak) that it would amount to accepting a "handout" from "the enemy." All three Russians rank high in the esteem of,the outside world as well as in the Soviet scientific hierarchy. Dr. Tamm is often rated...
...Cherenkov radiation remained a tantalizing mystery until three years later. Two other Soviet physicists, Ilya M. Frank and his senior, Igor Tamm (who studied at Edinburgh and speaks English with a Scottish burr), became interested, worked out a strange but correct theory. When gamma rays pass through water, they hit electrons, and the impact bumps the electrons up to high velocities. The electrons do not move faster than light in a vacuum (186,000 m.p.sec., the Einsteinian speed limit of the universe), but they do move faster than light in water, 140,000 m.p.sec. For exceeding the local speed limit...