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Just as vehement on the other side is Physical Chemist Linus Pauling of Caltech, who is also a Nobel Prizewinner (1954). "I estimate," says Pauling, "that the bomb tests that have been made so far will ultimately have caused the death of about 1,000,000 people in the world...
Geneticist E. B. Lewis, also of Caltech, proves in Science that leukemia (a cancer-like blood disease) is indeed caused by radiation. He uses statistics covering Japanese atom-bomb victims and three types of Americans exposed to large amounts of X rays. Strontium 90, he believes, will have the same effect. He figures that if its concentration in U.S. bones ever rises to one-tenth of what the AEC considers the "maximum permissible concentration," leukemia in the U.S. will increase...
...Geochemist Harrison Brown left for Caltech. Later, Economist Jacob Marschak went to Yale; Dean John Jeuck of the business school settled for a professorship at the Harvard business school. Chemist Willard Libby joined the AEC, and Theologian Amos Wilder is now on the faculty of Harvard's revived Divinity School. Last week Chicago lost one of the biggest names of all: Social Scientist David (The Lonely Crowd) Riesman, 47, whose colleagues have long sensed his growing frustration over a Chicago that seems no longer quite the daring place it once was. In 1958 Harvardman ('31) Riesman will return...
...Salt Lake City store owner. Both skipped grades in grammar school, peddied magazines for pocket money and excelled in their classes. Wooldridge graduated from high school at 14 and with honors from the University of Oklahoma; Ramo graduated from the University of Utah. Both went on to Caltech, where they won Ph.D.s...
Simon Ramo had already come to the same conclusion. After Caltech he tried for a job with General Electric. Ramo was finally hired, but not because of his brain. The G.E. man chanced to hear him play the violin, hired him (at $28 a week) in the interests of the "very fine symphony orchestra'' in Schenectady, N.Y. Alternating between fiddling and physics, Ramo eventually became a section chief in the company's electronics lab. But, like Wooldridge, he yearned to apply science to the construction of products...