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...delegation of Soviet scientists that ranged from Sputnik Authority Evgeny Federov through Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Nikolai Semenov to nonscientific Semyon K. Tsarapkin, one of Gromyko's oldtime U.N. scowlers. They will meet with the British and French delegates and the U.S. trio, composed of University of California Physicist Ernest O. Lawrence, Bell Telephone Laboratories' Executive Vice President James Fisk and Caltech Physicist Robert Bacher...
Citation: "A most upright and conscientious gentleman, one in whom, as the orator Cicero said of another, there appears the embodiment of culture, of gentle wit, of amiability and of charm." Harvard University Hans Bethe, physicist . Sc.D...
...Truman-appointed AECommissioner, Lewis Strauss (rhymes with laws) pushed through the nuclear-detection system that in September 1949 spotted the first Communist atomic blast, put the free world on guard. In October 1949, against the objection of all four of his fellow AECommissioners and all eight of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, he recommended the development of the U.S. hydrogen bomb. He convinced AECommissioner Gordon Dean, while heavy support piled in from Secretary of State Dean Acheson and the Pentagon. After four agonizing months, on Jan. 31, 1950, President Truman announced that he had ordered work...
...first time in my life I have enemies," said Strauss, and he made plenty. He got inured, more or less, to gibes from public-power Democrats and from the pundits and scientists who resented his part in recommending the cancellation of the security clearance of Physicist Oppenheimer (TIME, April 19, 1954). But in recent months Strauss had come under attack of a sharp and intensely personal sort from New Mexico's Clinton P. Anderson, ranking Senate Democrat on the powerful and once circumspect Joint Committee on Atomic Energy...
Civic Pride. Today's KQED's programs include a 30-show series on the U.S. economy, and a twelve-part series on The World and Physics, conducted by Physicist Teller. Each is a high-level professional show, but each is also entertaining. Philosophized Day: "Being high-minded is not enough. This process of discovery that we call education is exciting, and we should make it so." KQED-TV has done just that, and out of gratitude and civic pride, San Francisco's citizens have responded with financial support to help keep it proudly solvent...