Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Golf-playing physicists have one big advantage-they know their physics. Hoping to improve his game (mid-80s), topnotch Physicist-Professor Luis W. Alvarez, 46, went about it scientifically, designed a stroboscopic golf-trainer. The electronic gadget allows the golfer to see "a series of positionally arrested images" of the club head and tell whether it is approaching the ball at the proper angle. The University of California physicist shipped one trainer to a fellow golfer in the White House, last week received a patent (No. 2,825,569) on his idea...
When any conductor, either a wire or an ionized gas. is pushed across a magnetic field, two things happen: 1) an electric current flows through the conductor and 2) the conductor meets resistance and therefore slows down. Physicist Neuringer's proposal is to create a strong magnetic field on the front surface of the re-entry body. When ionized air flows across it, the braking action of the magnetism will make it pile up in a deeper, slower moving layer that will not transfer as much heat to the solid surface...
...allot only $18.6 million to new buildings. Meanwhile, the California Institute of Technology started a $16.1 million fund-raising drive to improve salaries, erect new buildings. ¶Urging a Harvard University audience to bridge "the gulf between scientific and nonscientific cultures," England's Sir Charles P. Snow, physicist and novelist, mapped the abyss by noting: "I've often asked distinguished English writers and the like a rather simple question, such as 'What idea, if any, do you have of the second law of thermodynamics?', and an air of goggle-eyed stupefaction comes over the party. When...
...Charles P. Snow, British physicist and novelist, and Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, who was recently appointed chief scientific adviser to NATO, will argue for the shift in emphasis...
...White House. Lyndon Johnson began looking closely at the problems of space 2% months ago after listening to brush-browed Physicist Edward Teller (TIME, Dec. 9) testify before the Johnson Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee...