Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee member stressed that "we are not advising people to resist the draft. But if a physicist comes to us and has already decided to leave the country permanently, we want to help him find a place where he could at least continue his work...
...rumors were whipped up by an anonymous telephone call four days later to one of William Fulbright's Foreign Relations Committee staffers. The caller urged the committee to investigate the reason why Columbia University Physicist Richard Garwin and several other nuclear-weapons experts had been sent recently on a secret mission to Viet Nam. Hence Fulbright's letter to Rusk-who brusquely denied that the Garwin mission had anything to do with nuclear weapons...
...Physicist Ralph Lapp was part of the Manhattan Project, and long served as a nuclear specialist for the Defense Department. In recent years, however, he has severed connections with all Government projects and thus is free to speak out on U.S. nuclear and weapons policies. Speak out he does. Last week at the University of Washington, Lapp not only criticized the U.S. decision to deploy a thin anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense system, but also pointed out the damage the system could wreak on the very population it was intended to protect...
...Then, as head of the family heirs of Co-Founders Paul Franke (who died in 1950) and Reinhold Heidecke (1960), Paul's son Horst Franke, 54, asked for an outsider's assessment of the company. Called in for the job, Dr. Heinrich Peesel, a Hamburg physicist, submitted a frankly "insulting" report that rapped Rollei for feeble R. & D. efforts and outdated production methods. Far from being insulted, the company hired Peesel to put his recommendations into effect. A youthful pragmatist who is now 42, Peesel had no taste for the European tradition of age in the executive suite...
Died. Leopold Infeld, 69, Polish theoretical physicist; of a heart ailment; in Warsaw. At Princeton during the 1930s, Infeld helped his friend Albert Einstein develop the general theory of relativity; with Einstein he also shared the work of writing The Evolution of Physics, a 1938 text so fascinating to laymen that it hit the bestseller lists. At the University of Toronto, Infeld did pioneer work on the unified-field theory of magnetism and gravitation; then, in 1950, he suddenly returned home to teach-and proved something of a problem to the Communists, often criticizing Warsaw's scientific censorship...