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Meanwhile radar, like many another war worker, was temporarily unemployed, while the U.S. dismantled its $3 billion radar industry. Almost as fantastic as its products was the Radiation Laboratory at Cambridge, Mass. According to M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, it was "the biggest research organization in the history of the world." Beginning in the fall of 1940, when the nation's top physicists began to gather in a few offices lent by M.I.T., the Laboratory quietly took over a milk plant, a shoe-polish factory, an airport. Eventually, it grew to a team of 3,800, including...
...good at it that President Roosevelt sent him to London during the blitz. He was one of only four Americans to be entrusted with all U.S.-British technical secrets (the others: famed scientists Vannevar Bush, Karl T. Compton, James Bryant Conant). When the Nazis buzzed over their V-1 and V2, Hovde was drafted to devise countermeasures. He has since supervised the entire U.S. rocket-development program...
Under the cover name of "The Metallurgical Laboratory," some of the most important discoveries were made at the University of Chicago directed by famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. His leading associate: Italian-born Dr. 'Enrico Fermi, whom many consider the world's foremost nuclear physicist. But there were also scores of other laboratories where the work went on: Columbia, University of California, Iowa State, industrial research centers...
...host of famed scientists, including such bigwigs as Niels Bohr, Lawrence, Arthur Holly Compton and James...
...West Point's present Superintendent, Major General Francis H. Wilby, invited criticism of the shortened curriculum from a board of consultants including Presidents Ernest M. Hopkins of Dart mouth and Karl T. Compton of M.I.T...