Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final half of his first look at the U.S. What he saw was a richer panorama of Americana than many a U.S. resident sees in a lifetime. In California there were elegant dinners, a ceremonial visit to a winery, and a tour of the University of California's Berkeley Radiation Laboratory. In Detroit (where Mayor Louis Miriani refused to meet him), he got the full treatment from the top automakers and a private, free-for-all debate with Michigan's G. Mennen Williams (Williams on Kozlov: "Urbane, gracious, shrewd, tough." Kozlov on Williams: "Not well informed on foreign...
...Berkeley, Calif., one of the world's biggest, most complex and most dangerous scientific instruments was ready for full operation for the first time. Its name was a tongue twister: the liquid hydrogen bubble chamber, designed and built by the University of California's Radiation Laboratory. In the next week or so, a beam of antiprotons from Berkeley's great 6 billion-volt Bevatron will pass through a pipe 200 ft. long, enter an odd-looking building and strike into a glass-topped metal bathtub containing 150 gal. of liquid hydrogen. As the antiprotons travel through...
Liquid hydrogen is rugged stuff to fool with, so cold (boiling point: -252.7° C. at atmospheric pressure) that steel cracks on sudden contact. It must be elaborately refrigerated or it will flash into vapor. Even a small leak is highly explosive. The 150 gal. in Berkeley's chamber have the explosive power...
...Gate from San Francisco, where he wrote a novel (one of three, all unpublished), worked as a switchman on the Southern Pacific Railroad, and preached at a weekend church in Stinson Beach. After he was ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern), Delattre moved to Berkeley, where he helped develop a program on religion and contemporary culture at the University of California and formed some definite ideas about his ministry. "I began to ask why it was that the most exciting people in student life and the most dynamic I met elsewhere wouldn't come...
...Percy W. Bridgman (1946 prize-physics of high pressures): "If I think that my colleague may be able to make some helpful suggestion, I can feel it only highly irrelevant that he may not have secured clearance by the FBI." ¶The University of California's Berkeley Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 prize -synthesis of new elements): "I am concerned about the virtual absence of easy, direct communication with scientists of the Soviet Union . . . Poland, Czechoslovakia and China. If we do not get a proper perspective on the development of science in countries such as China, we shall...