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...Space Administration, made his way into the Pentagon office of Army Secretary Wilber Brucker last fortnight with a message: civilian-run NASA, operating under Congressional authority, intended to take over the Army's missile-making Redstone Arsenal, 2,100 scientists from its missile team, the Army-backed Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Los Angeles and various other installations...
...science and engineering, and to build its curriculum up from basic science, not from other colleges' texts and courses. A further provision: 35% of each student's study was to be in the humanities, a proportion larger than is required at such schools as M.I.T. and Caltech. "We need creative, responsible scientists and engineers," explains young (43), pipe-smoking President Joseph B. Platt, head of the physics department and onetime (1949-51) chief research physicist for the Atomic Energy Commission. "These men will need solid training in the basic sciences on which technology is built. They can learn...
...Beadle was not wasted. Since becoming chief of Caltech's biologists, he has revealed unexpected talents, including fund raising and speechmaking. His colleagues agree that his greatest talent is his way of encouraging and enhancing his division without visibly running it. He tries to function as a catalyst rather than as organizer, encouraging scientists from different disciplines to take a lively interest in each other's fields. Caltech's Division of Biology is equal to any in the world, and it operates in an atmosphere of amiability spiced with high intellectual excitement. These are Beadle...
...House. In 1953 Beadle married young, handsome Muriel Barnett, a feature writer who still works at her newspaper job on the Los Angeles Mirror-News. She has a teen-age son, Redmond Barnett, whom Beadle has legally adopted. They live on Pasadena's San Pasqual Street near the Caltech campus in a charming, rambling house that once belonged to Dr. Morgan and was sold by his widow to Caltech. The grounds glow with flowers, some of them experiments in genetics but still attractive, and a patrol of eight Siamese cats keeps watch on everything interesting. Beadle is fond...
...Caltech's Chemist Linus Pauling, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on molecular structure, reported that the DNA molecule has a helical (spiral-staircase) structure. Later that year, James D. Watson and Francis H.C. Crick in England went a step farther. DNA, they said, is a double helix with two spirally rising chains of linked atomic groups and a series of horizontal members, like steps, connecting the two spirals. This molecular model, deduced mostly from X-ray diffraction photos, seemed complex and unlikely, but geneticists rejoiced when they heard about it. It was just what they" needed...