Word: isidore
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...Watson Research Center, even before Reagan's star wars speech in March, which called for accelerated research on defensive weapons, including those that could be based in space. After the President's address, more than a dozen people joined in the appeal. Among them: Hans Bethe and Isidor Rabi, winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics; Retired Admiral Noel Gayler, who was director of the National Security Agency from 1969 to 1972; Lee DuBridge, physicist and president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology; and former NASA senior Space Wizard Christopher Kraft. The petition is part...