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...existence was predicted in 1931 by British Theoretical Physicist Paul Dirac, and scientists have been looking for it ever since-on the ocean floor, in meteorites, Arctic ice and even moon rocks. Dirac, one of the fathers of quantum theory, said that magnetic particles might exist that are exclusively "north" or "south." Recent developments in quantum theory suggest that these single-poled units, or "monopoles," would have immense mass, about 10 million billion times that of a proton at rest. Placed on a table, a monopole would prove so heavy in relation to its size that it would fall through...
Professor shockley did little damage to Stanford with his racist theories because he is a physicist and was perceived as politicking outside his field of expertise, but our situation compares to the chairman of the Astronomy Department announcing the world is flat. In a free academic community, Mr. Pattullo's right to his opinion, without fear of reprimand or censorship, is sacred. But, in the University, of which all others in English America are limitations, I would hope for some prompt, emphatic, and responsible disavowals and rejoinders from someone besides the Gay Students Association and peckerwoods like me. I would...
DIED. Gaylord Harnwell, 78, scientific administrator and former president of the University of Pennsylvania; of a stroke; in Haverford, Pa. During World War II, Harnwell, a Princeton-trained physicist, coordinated research on sonar, for which he was honored by the Navy. As Penn's president from 1953 to 1970, he revived the university by upgrading the liberal arts college, improving research and faculty, and increasing the endowment...
...clearly trying to buy its way to a top academic rating. This semester it lured Nobel Physicist Steven Weinberg down South. He left behind a prestigious, endowed chair at Harvard in exchange for a Texas-size salary (reportedly more than $100,000) and a commitment from U.T. officials to hire other top specialists in elementary-particle theory. Says Weinberg, 48: "I'm trying to build up a group of theoretical physicists, and I'm being given the resources to do it." At U.T. he joined Physicist John Wheeler, 70, the distinguished nuclear-fission expert who came to Austin...
Paul C. Martin '51, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences, has been named to fill an academic chair in Physics, newly endowed in the name of a former Harvard Physicist and Nobel Prize-winning profesor who died in October...