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Smilingly describing himself as a "conservative" in such matters, black-browed Physicist Edward Teller, father of the H-bomb and director of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory at Livermore, Calif., warned against the risks of submitting to a ban on underground explosions. "Very few things in science are impossible," said he. "but I do not believe that there is any great likelihood that even in four or five years from now there will be a really foolproof method of checking underground explosions down to, let us say, one kiloton [1,000 tons of TNT]. No matter how we proceed we cannot...
...navigation system is a common phenomenon first articulated scientifically little more than 100 years ago, when Austrian Physicist Johann Christian Doppler noted that sound waves coming from a moving object increase in frequency as the source of the sound approaches an observer, decrease as it moves away. Thus, in what has become the standard example of the Doppler effect, a train whistle seems to rise and fall in pitch as the train goes by. Similarly, the signals from a satellite increase in frequency as they move nearer to a receiver on earth, diminish as they move on. By measuring...
Died. Donald J. Hughes, 45, nuclear physicist and one of the makers of the first atomic bomb, senior scientist at Long Island's Brookhaven National Laboratory since 1949, who toured Soviet labs in 1957 and concluded that the Russians concentrate money and manpower on propaganda-making science, but are behind the U.S. in the basic research that produces practical results in the future; of a heart attack; in Brookhaven...
...contacts," Senior Winthrop F. Sheerin, 25, of West Stockbridge, Mass., proposed that a "distinguished visitors' " chair be endowed by the students themselves. Instantly approved, an annual $3 head tax will raise an estimated $17,500, hopefully attract all sorts of illustrious lecturers, from Poet T. S. Eliot to Physicist Edward Teller. Said embattled President Mather proudly of his students: "They are honestly interested in sustaining excellence...
Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...