Word: diffusionism
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But the movie blows its chance. Although Cinematographer Haskell Wexler has executed in a masterly way the visual style chosen by Director Ashby, it is at odds with the story. Diffusion filters give a falsely nostalgic, pastoral glow to landscapes forever fixed in the hard-edged photos made of the...
Died. Lars Onsager, 72, longtime Yale chemistry professor whose work on heat transfer, now known as the fourth law of thermodynamics, won him the 1968 Nobel Prize; of a heart attack; in Coral Gables, Fla. Before World War II, Onsager proposed a gaseous diffusion process to produce the rare uranium...
The laser (the word is an acronym for light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) has been around since 1960, when scientists first succeeded in producing the powerful beams of single-frequency light waves. These beams could be delivered to distant points with much less diffusion and loss of intensity...
Dahl says that a report on undergraduate education need a mix of philosophical elements and more procedural ones, but that in the end a faculty is moved by concrete, substantive recommendation. As for Rosovsky's task force scheme, Dahl says he sees advantages and disadvantages in it. On one hand...
Died. John Ray Dunning, 67, pioneering American nuclear physicist; of a heart attack; in Key Biscayne, Fla. Dunning directed the 1939 experiment at Columbia University's cyclotron in Manhattan that confirmed the findings of scientists in Germany and elsewhere about the possibility of controlled atomic fission. "Believe we have...