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Waves, Disks and Dynamos: Angular Momentum Transport in Low Mass Disks-with Ethan Vishniac of the University of Texas. In the Phillips Auditorium at 60 Garden...
...vanished but not vanquished world," says Roman Vishniac of the German and Eastern European Jewish communities he photographed on the eve of the Holocaust. In A Vanished World (Farrar Straus & Giroux; 180 pages; $49.95) a doomed people are brought to life. The faces are unforgettable; wide-eyed children in Hebrew schools, a wise elder peering over his glasses, a handsome singer in a Hasidic choir. Many of the pictures reflect anti-Semitic repression in pre-war Poland and Germany. In one photo, Vishniac's little daughter is posed beside a Berlin shop window displaying a demoniac device that purported...
...individuals highlighted in the exhibit include scientists Melvin Calvin, Margaret Mead, Linus Pauling, Simon Ramo, Jonas Salk and Charles Townes; designers Buckminster Fuller, Lawrence Halprin and George Nelson; composer John Cage; artists Romare Beardon, Judy Chicago, Jasper Johns and Roman Vishniac; and choreographer Merce Cunningham. In addition, the show examines the work of the team of seismologists, geologists, and oceanographers which developed the theory of plate tectonics...
Died. Wolf V. Vishniac, 51, a microbiologist who designed one of the devices to be used to search for life on Mars during the U.S.'s first soft-landing attempt in 1975-76; after falling down an ice slope during an expedition to Antarctica. Vishniac's "Wolf trap" is the size of a cigar box and contains adhesive-coated strings that will be dragged through Mars' arid soil, then reeled into the container, where any life forms stuck to the strings will be detected. -Died. Marian Young Taylor, 65, known to radio listeners for 32 years...
Inadequate Quarantine. University of Rochester Biochemist Wolf Vishniac is not particularly concerned about the Apollo 11 mission, which will bring back only surface samples. But Vishniac is convinced that more elaborate quarantine precautions should be taken thereafter. On later missions, he points out, astronauts will dig for samples from below the surface, where radiation and temperature variations are less severe and the prospects of life more likely...
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