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...nuclear explosions. The scientists should aim for an initial progress report in 30 days, a final report in 60 days, wrote Ike, and the U.S. and U.S.S.R. should keep the U.N. fully informed of progress. Then the President nominated three topflight U.S. scientists to represent the U.S. The three: Physicist Ernest 0. Lawrence, director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory; Bell Telephone Laboratories' Executive Vice President Dr. James Brown Fisk; Caltech Physicist Robert F. Bacher, onetime member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission...
...largest (10 billion synchrocyclotron volts) particle accelerator in the world-nearly twice as powerful as the one at Berkeley, Calif., though it has not yet lived up to its expensive expectations. Russia put its first pure-jet airliner into operation two years and more before the U.S., and M.I.T. Physicist Jerome B. Wiesner, who helped develop some of the advanced radar for the DEW line, has warned that Russia's air-defense system "appears to be better than...
Almost every university student is subsidized, and the freshly graduated physicist can count on making at least $200 a month, plus another $100 for research, which is good money in the land of the proletariat. The government thinks nothing of building whole "science cities," equipped modern villas, clubs, cinemas and stadiums for scientists. When an American asked Physicist Vladimir Vekser how much his huge accelerator at Dubna cost, Veksler replied simply: "I don't know. To get the money, all we had to say was that you had one." If the Soviet scientist lives in an ideological cage...
...special place in society that they hold today. Though a practical man, Czar Peter fully realized the value of research that might not bring immediate benefits. As a result, from the days of the early academy's great all-round genius Mikhail Lomonsov -poet, pioneer physical chemist, physicist, reformer of the language, and "father of the new Russian literature"-Russian science has flourished even under the most stifling of dictatorships...
Cosmic Radiation. Space's swirling storms of atomic particles cause mutations (mostly undesirable for survival) in bread mold, probably will have the same effect in humans if they strike the genes in the reproductive system. Unsuspected until this month's report by Iowa Physicist Dr. James Van Allen was the intense radiation storm encountered 600 miles from the earth by Explorer satellites. Still to be learned is whether this danger zone stretches from pole to pole. If so, the space traveler may have to hurry through it, as Dr. Simons says, "like running fast through a grass fire...