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...other non-Russian scientists were impressed, but hardly astonished, by the Soviet success. Said Dr. William H. Pickering, director of Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Pasadena: "This was not an engineering breakthrough, but it was a demonstration of a very nice, precise operation...
Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry (TIME, Cover, July...
...Caltech, Geneticist Beadle has stuck close to his research as head of the school's famous biology division since 1946. But he has shown a sixth-sense ability to spot, recruit and excite able researchers, and has developed unexpected talents in fund raising and speechmaking. Beadle is even that rare scientist who takes an interest in money matters; he avidly reads the Wall Street Journal, and took delight in driving a $250 model A Ford for 22 years, then selling...
George Wells Beadle, 57, head of the biology division at Caltech, was all set to spend his life on the family farm in Wahoo, Neb. when he got a crush on his pretty high school science teacher. Neither Beadle nor science ever quite got over it. The farm boy went to college and became a geneticist. With skill, patience and insatiable curiosity he helped to transform his narrow, abstruse specialty into a vital branch of science. Moving on from the classic fruit-fly experiments which had extended the study of heredity, Beadle began to investigate the intricate internal chemistry...
Died. Eric Temple Bell, 77, eminent Caltech mathematician (his specialty: the theory of numbers) and science fiction writer (under the name John Taine), whose works ranged from Algebraic Arithmetic to The Cosmic Geoids; of a heart attack; in Watsonville, Calif...