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...ATOM The Oppenheimer Case Swirling last week amid the currents of opinion stirred up by Russia's Sputniks was a demand for a re-examination of the decade's most sensational security-risk case: the Atomic Energy Commission's 1954 decision revoking the security clearance of Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, wartime director of the Los Alamos A-bomb laboratory and later chairman of the AEC's General Advisory Committee. A three-man special board headed by the University of North Carolina's President Gordon Gray (now Defense Mobilization Director) concluded in 1954 that Oppenheimer...
...Clinton P. Anderson, vice chairman of the Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy: "Mr. Oppenheimer was indiscreet in many of the things he said, but you have to take genius the way it exists." Some scientists backed up the politicians. Said Columbia University's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, chairman of President Eisenhower's Science Advisory Committee: reinstatement of Oppenheimer would be "a source of encouragement to the whole scientific community...
Sharper Than a Knife. Nobody knows how ultrasound achieves most of its effects. But its use in neurology at Iowa City has a solid base in years of painstaking research. Physicist William Justin Fry, 39, worked with underwater sound for the Navy during World War II, went to the University of Illinois at Urbana and carried on ultrasound work with funds from the Office of Naval Research. In the early postwar years most ultrasound generators produced only a crude, unfocused beam. Fry built a two-story laboratory with equipment reminiscent of science-fiction illustrations, gradually refined his complex apparatus...
There is not much to the play. A splendidly impractical, bumbling and brilliant Nobel-prize physicist, his wife, their children, and the professor's aide, form the nucleus of a mild plot involving near-death and a bit of adultery that reinstills vigor into the marriage. Philosophy bumps into the comedy a bit in the second half of the evening...
Charles P. Snow, well-known English novelist, physicist, and Civil Service Commissioner, will visit Leverett House for several weeks this winter, John J. Conway, Master of the House, announced yesterday...