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...Vague terms such as "strangeness" cropped up to describe mathematically the way these new unstable particles differ from the old familiar ones. Some of the new particles were called "resonances," a term that describes familiar particles temporarily bound together. "There was a sense of uneasiness," says Czech-born California Physicist Harold Ticho. "We were turning up a mess of disconnected beasts which seemed to have no relation to any theory of nature...
Nobody in America survives, with the exception of 14 people in millionaire Vance Farr's plush fallout shelter. They form a fascinating group. With Farr himself, there is his alcoholic wife; a Jewish physicist; Farr's lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs...
...night last winter, the entire experiment was ready. The men on Wachusett turned on the diode and reported their action to Lincoln Lab by telephone. Standing on the lab roof, Physicist M. John Hudson pointed a snooperscope toward the mountain and immediately picked out the bright spot of light that marked the glowing diode. By telephone he told the men on the mountain to begin talking into a microphone and modulating the infrared beam. The response came clearly across the cold night air and was picked up by the lab-top receiver. "I'm starting now." Those words...
...breakthrough had come as Physicist Robert J. Keyes checked on the properties of a gallium arsenide diode developed by Lincoln Lab Engineer Theodore M. Quist. A less-than-gnat-sized electronic device that generates pure infra-red light when a small direct current is passed through it, the diode turned out to have an extraordinary property: the intensity of the normally invisible infra-red beam could be easily controlled by varying the strength of the current that generates it. Keyes speculated that if his little light beam was visible at any distance, it could be modulated to carry the human...
...Nazis deprived themselves of all this when they fired Physicist Born for something called "Jewish physics." Franck quit, and others scattered. Gottingen did not remotely recover until after World War II, when it took in a wave of avid students in tattered Wehrmacht uniforms -"the best generation we ever had." recalls one veteran professor. It also welcomed a new source of research renown: the independent Max Planck Institute for Physics, named for the late pioneer of the quantum theory, and headed by Physicist Heisenberg, discoverer of the "uncertainty principle."* Though Heisenberg moved his staff to Munich...