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...double Nobel Prize winner, was awarded the only Doctor of Science degree. He is a professor of Physics at the University of Illinois, and is one of the world's outstanding solid-state theorists. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for his work in developing the transistor, and again in 1972 for his contribution to the development of a microscopic theory of superconductivity...
...help may be at hand. After five years of effort, IBM's research labs have developed an electronic switching device that can be turned on and off in less than ten trillionths of a second -more than 100 times faster than the fastest transistor used in computers. What is more, IBM's development requires only about one ten-thousandth of the power necessary to run these transistors; it gives off only a tiny fraction of the heat they radiate. And it is transistor heat as much as switching time that limits a computer's skills. For when...
...strong as the earth's. But IBM scientists found a more practical use. They knew that they could produce a voltage drop across a Josephson junction by applying a weak magnetic field; generating that field would require only a fraction of the energy required to switch a transistor. Furthermore, the presence or absence of that voltage across a Josephson junction could be used to represent the same "yes" or "no" information conveyed by a transistor...
Nobel-prizewinning Physicist William B. Shockley, 63, was supposed to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Leeds on the 25th anniversary of his participation in the invention of the transistor. But Leeds had second thoughts because of Shockley's controversial view that blacks are genetically disadvantaged and a eugenic threat to civilization. Shockley was philosophical. "If life gives you a lemon, make lemonade...
There is no question that the President must save money. But by cutting back basic research in so many key areas, is he sacrificing some unexpected future achievement of untold economic or social importance-a discovery comparable, say, to the transistor or the polio vaccine? Many scientists are certain he is. Harvard's George Kistiakowsky, who was one of Eisenhower's science advisers, calls the Nixon policy, especially the reduction in fellowships, "incredibly shortsighted." By stressing short-term, politically motivated payoffs over the broader quest for knowledge, he warns, Nixon is dangerously "using up our intellectual capital...