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What then was the secret of Edison's inventiveness? The core of it must remain as elusive as the mystery of why Rembrandt handled chiaroscuro so masterfully; it was an inborn gift, honed by practice but unteachable. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, for one, maintains that Edison could no more have stopped himself from inventing than a born punster can refrain from playing word games. Robert Conot, author of a 1979 biography of Edison, A Streak of Luck, observes that Edison's mind "multiplied devices from a single idea like a dividing amoeba and then compartmentalized...
They had never met, never corresponded. But on opposite sides of the Atlantic, U.S. Physicist Allan Cormack, 55, of Tufts University, and Research Engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, 60, of the British firm EMI Ltd., brooded over the same mathematical puzzle and independently reached the same solution. The puzzle: how to produce an X-ray image of tissue at any depth within a patient. The result: the CAT (for computerized axial tomography) scanner, a medical marvel now used in hospitals round the world. Last week the two scientists learned that they have something else in common: they will share the 1979 Nobel...
Tufts University physicist Allan M. Cormack, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize foe medicine for his development of a sophisticated x-ray machine, said yesterday that despite the device's high cost, every major hospital ought to have...
...near Socorro, N.M. What resulted was a radio map that, with one important exception, coincided with the images seen with the Kitt Peak telescope. The difference was that the sensitive radio antenna array discerned two jets of material that seemed to be shooting from one of the quasars. Explains Physicist Burke: "Quasars do have outbursts and send out material that gives off radio noise without producing much light...
Carefully sheltered by her mother Jeanne, who works at a nearby tennis club, and her father George, a nuclear physicist, Tracy typically alternates a week on the tennis tour with two weeks of schoolwork and practice. That regimen allows for plenty of tournament play and an A average as well. "I just want my time at home to be normal," she says. Tracy has earned well in excess of $300,000 in the past year, so her $1-a-week allowance has been suspended. But she still must ask her mother for clothes money. Her older sister and two older...