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...enabled her to claim a widow's pension. Investigators also discov ered that while ostensibly living with her father in a Hamburg suburb, she spent a lot of time in a cottage on the edge of the Sachsenwald, the home of a quiet-spoken woodcutter named Karl Egon Neumann...
...nephew of Economist Thorstein Veblen, member of the Princeton University faculty from 1905 until 1932, when he joined the new Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he was instrumental in selecting the famed research center's original mathematics staff, which included Albert Einstein and John von Neumann; of a heart attack; in Brooklin...
...channeled its missile efforts into now-obsolescent air-breathing missiles-Snark, Navaho, Regulus, etc.-that were inherently useless for space work. Meanwhile, the Russians were pushing ahead with ballistic missiles. By 1953, when a team of U.S. physicists headed by the late Hungarian-born John von Neumann devised a way of making a thermonuclear warhead small enough to be delivered by a ballistic missile of economic size, the Russians had a long head start in ballistic-missile development...
Later, while the thieves were in the room, Wessels' telephone rang. Neumann went to answer it and surprised the youths, who then seized their loot and rushed past him, into a waiting car. They threw the records from the car window to avoid detection, but were soon picked up by Cambridge Patrolman David F. Cotter for "acting suspiciously...
Both Purcell and Kistiakowsky have been associated with missile development. Kistiakowsky has served on the von Neumann Committee since it was formed in 1953, and Purcell has served since 1947 as a scientific adviser to the Air Force...