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...build up its case, the committee called in two scientists, still bitter against Strauss for his part in getting the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer lifted in 1954, in a sequel to the fierce battle in which Strauss urged-and Oppenheimer opposed-a program to develop an H-bomb. Argonne National Laboratory Physicist David R. Inglis, newly elected chairman of the politicking Federation of American Scientists, charged that Strauss, out of "personal vindictiveness," had dragged scientific freedom "into the dirt" in the Oppenheimer case. But Inglis threw considerable light on his own judgment when he remarked that Alger...
Impeached as a witness in a different way was Los Alamos Physicist David L. Hill, who accused Strauss of, among other things, distorting truth and usurping authority. Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott remarked that Hill's statement was "extremely well prepared." Did he get any help in preparing it from "anyone connected with the Senate or with any Senate Staff member?" An uneasy silence fell. Then the committee's Special Counsel Kenneth Cox, a Seattle lawyer, spoke up: "The witness discussed several matters with me, Senator Scott...
...decision to teach, the teacher admits with irony, "was forced on me by the very urgent need to eat." For two embittering years after World War II, Edward Ricardo Braithwaite, sometime R.A.F. fighter pilot, searched for a job. He was a well-qualified physicist with degrees from New York University and graduate experience at Cambridge. But he was also a British Guiana-born Negro, and the London engineering firms to which he applied told him politely that there must have been some mistake: no jobs were available. Then Braithwaite heard that London's schools were desperately short of teachers...
...into school-work with burning enthusiasm, getting top marks in all his subjects. Not eager to let him get too far away, his parents sent him to Iowa Wesleyan, a small college right in Mount Pleasant. There he quickly attracted the attention of Professor Thomas Poulter, a first-class physicist...
...announcement caused an embarrassed flurry in high Washington circles. Van Allen learned that, at the suggestion of Physicist Nicholas Christofilos of Livermore Laboratory, the Department of Defense was planning to launch Project Argus, in which three atom bombs would be rocketed above the atmosphere and exploded (TIME, March 30). The high-speed electrons released were expected to be shunted around the earth by the earth's magnetic field. Van Allen's discovery that nature had already provided such electrons was a considerable shock...