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Known in the scientific world as a rollicking wit and a hard worker, stocky (5 ft. 11 in., 190 Ibs.) Physicist Herb York got his start in science as a small boy in Rochester, N.Y., when his uncle gave him a book on astronomy. He worked his way through the University of Rochester (A.B. '41, Phi Beta Kappa), took his Master's in 1943. After that he joined the parade of topnotch atomic physicists at the University of California's famed Radiation Laboratory, later became associate director. In March he moved his wife and three children...
...with matter has some connection, Dali thinks, with the medievalists' view of angels, which could light in hosts upon the point of a pin. His new canvas relates to both concepts. Seen close, it does dissolve into pure abstraction-as abstract, say, as the goings-on in a physicist's cloud chamber...
...solemn in his studio as any physicist, and equally bent on the barely possible, Dali pursues his difficult new way. "I have reached a turning point in my art," he says, staring over the waxed candelabra...
...face creased in smiles. "I have something interesting to announce. I have just been advised that a satellite is in orbit and that its weight is nearly 9,000 pounds." The crowd broke into applause. Even Communist Poland's ambassador, Romuald Spasowksi said, "Terrific. I am myself a physicist, and to put such a big load so high is a great achievement." Said Denmark's new ambassador, Count Gustav Knuth-Winterfeldt: "It was the best Christmas present we could have...
Died. Wolfgang Pauli, 58, Swiss physicist, 1945 Nobel prizewinner for his work on atomic structure, World War II co-worker with Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; after surgery; in Zurich...