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Died. Louis N. Ridenour Jr., 47, top-notch nuclear physicist who, despite being emotional about his specialty (in 1946 he wrote a grim, prophetic, one-act play about flocks of satellite bombs orbiting 800 miles above the doomed earth), pioneered in missile programs as chief scientist (1950-51) of the Air Force, helped develop the Polaris and X-17 missiles as research director of Lockheed Aircraft Corp.'s missile-systems division, became a Lockheed vice president last March; of a brain hemorrhage; in Washington...
...third, less happy, opinion of retirement is voiced by Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus. "You'll hear many different views on retirement," he says, "I don't like it." The physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946, has been restless since his retirement because he has not been able to continue doing independent scientific research...
Bunche's nomination for high University office however, is just the latest in a series of issues raised by the Veritas group and its supporters. In 1956, when the Harvard Cooperation invited physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to deliver the William James Lectures on Science and Philosophy, five Bostonians organized the original Veritas Committee--the Foundation's ideological godfather...
...Physicist Edward Teller pointed...
Strauss's "longstanding, warm and effective support of science," his "great respect for science and friendship for scientists." Physicist Detlev W. Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that over the years he had found Strauss "completely cooperative" and "completely honest...