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...nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently probed the secrets of the atom. He repeated an experiment that had been tried by half a dozen researchers, including Enrico Fermi in Rome and Irene Joliot-Curie in Paris...
...Died. Otto Hahn, 89, Nobel laureate who proved that the atom could be split (see SCIENCE...
Died. Sir Henry Dale, 93, top-ranking British physiologist, who shared a 1936 Nobel Prize in medicine with Austria's Otto Loewi for pioneering work on the function of the chemical acetylcholine in the body; in Cambridge, England. Body-produced acetylcholine, Sir Henry found, acts on the nervous system to lower blood pressure. He later discovered that histamine, another body chemical, may cause allergies and respiratory ailments, a find that led to antihistamines for colds and allergies...
Next week economics department chairman Otto Eckstein will meet with the leaders of this summer's experiment to discuss the first results. If the project has met with success, economics 1 may next year become the first Harvard course to offer instruction by computer...
Despite his grand gesture, Springer did not appease all his critics. The publisher, complained Columnist Otto Kohler in Der Spiegel, has "satisfied, in a formal sense, the recommendations of the press commission without touching the basis of his political influence." In other words, Springer still controls close to 40% of Germany's newspaper circulation. He also keeps two radio and TV magazines and a sports publication...