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DIED. Merle Tuve, 80, physicist whose discoveries opened the way to radar and nuclear energy; in Bethesda, Md. More than 50 years ago, Tuve noted that short-pulse radio waves reflected off the ionosphere, which provided the theoretical underpinning for radar. In 1933 he confirmed the existence of the neutron and was also able to measure the bonding forces in atomic nuclei. During World War II, he organized development of the proximity fuse for antiaircraft shells, enabling defenders to increase greatly their accuracy in combating German V-1 buzz bombs and Japanese kamikaze plane attacks...
...award was made at a dinner in the Columbia University Club of New York City. Nine other scholars, including Rosemond Tuve, professor of English at Connecticut College, were honored in the third year of the program. Funds for the awards have been made available by the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation...
...made the subject generally popular offered some observations last week about what is wrong. The three: Dr. James R. Killian Jr., Massachusetts Institute of Technology president and special assistant to the President for science and technology; Rear Admiral Hyman Rickover. father of the atomic submarine; and Dr. Merle Antony Tuve, director of the department of terrestrial magnetism at the Carnegie Institution of Washington...
Said Physicist Tuve (rhymes with prove), concerned over the possibility of well-meaning overemphasis of science: "I believe that science must firmly be included among the liberalizing humanities in any honest assessment of modern thought." He proposed that teachers get pay raises for the quality of their teaching, "not only for longevity and for more degrees from schools of education...
Most striking notions of the evening: 1) Tuve's suggestion that love of learning be rekindled among high school teachers by giving them time off for their own scholarship, and 2) Rickover's observation -prompted by a remark on the "union card" restrictions for teacher .certification fossilized into law by pressure from the teachers' colleges: "I hope this audience knows that neither Dr. Killian nor Dr. Tuve could qualify for a permanent teaching job in the high schools of this city...