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...first time, the physicist's lecture hit at a level inaccessible to many members of the audience. Dealing with the problems that arise in the formulation of concepts at the base of atomic physics, he seemed to some to deal with material above the scientific level of the average layman, and below that of people who have been trained in science...
...Berkeley Bevatron and the Cosmotron at Brookhaven National Laboratory. N.Y. It contains some new gadgets, but uses no novel principle. Most notable thing about it is its enormous size. Its ring of magnets is 184 ft. in diameter and contains 36,000 tons of steel. According to U.S. Physicist Luis Alvarez, who visited Dubna last spring, Russian physicists joke a little about the amount of steel. The Iron Curtain, they told him, was melted down to provide...
...founded 1930) and a board chairman since 1942; after long illness; in Manhattan. Attorney and corporation executive (Pershing Square Building Corp., Consolidated Cigar Corp.), Maass was instrumental in bringing the late Albert Einstein onto the faculty in 1933, presided over the October 1954 meeting which unanimously re-elected Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer as the institute's director after he had been declared a security risk...
...forum has been scheduled despite the refusal of a "considerable number" of Harvard and MIT professors to defend openly the appointment of the controversial physicist, William C. Brady '57, spokesman for the conservative debating club, revealed last night...
...physicist-philosopher, currently director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and one-time head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, gave his address as the first of eight William James Lectures on "The Hope of Order" in which he will concern himself with "our predicament in the twentieth century and the resources available for coping with...