Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those fields, Cambridge has led Oxford ever since the 17th century, when legend has it that an apple plopped on Don Isaac Newton's head and inspired his theory of gravity. In its famed Cavendish Laboratory, founded in 1872, Cambridge boasts one of the world's great centers of nuclear research. At Cavendish in 1919, Sir Ernest Rutherford first demonstrated nuclear reaction. Then Sir James Chadwick discovered the neutron; others have gone on to everything from the kinetic theory of gases to isolating the insulin molecule and piercing space with radio astronomy. "When it comes to research," says...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Guests include George London, Isaac Stern, Mahalia Jackson...
...Isaac Stern belongs to a breed of violin virtuosos who blend the elegant techniques of past masters with a warm understanding that elevates virtuosity into art. But Stern's violin (a Guarnerius) still belongs to the breed that Paganini played-and remains a remarkably recalcitrant instrument.* Musicians avoid it so studiously that even major orchestras find it difficult to hire string-section replacements. But Stern and four other greatly gifted players have lifted the solo violin to an eminence any age could envy. Standing with Stern as the world's finest: Zino Francescatti, David Oistrakh, Nathan Milstein, Jascha...
...accuracy that so astounded Arturo Toscanini when he first heard Heifetz that he reported, "I nearly lost my mind." Heifetz can reduce an audience to tears, and he does so with a surprising economy of effects. He knows the kind of communication be tween stage and audience that Isaac Stern once described: "Standing on the stage alone with only a piece of wood with some strings and horsehair between you and the audience, you have to have the belief that 'I have something to give you.' " The matchless possessor of that belief has been enjoying a semi-vacation...
...hero of a series of New Yorker stories by Leo Rosten, was a bemused Jewish immigrant who thought the discoverer of the laws of gravity was Isaac Newman...