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Student and alumni groups opposed to the appointment of the physicist plan no public protest or demonstration. Members of the Harvard Athenaeum said they would oppose and try to discourage such action, but will sponsor a debate on the subject next week...
...heart of Chicago's Fort Dearborn project, a 150-acre slum-clearance development on the main northern approach to the Loop, city planners decided to build a memorial to Atomic Physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, on a squash court under the stands of the University of Chicago's Stagg Field. When an international architectural competition was launched, 355 entrants from 25 countries submitted their designs. Last week the jury awarded first prize and $5,000 to Architect Reginald Caywood Knight, 35, of M.I.T.'s department of architecture...
...picture at right shows Charles Bateman, a physicist, in his New Kensington (Pa.) home last week. Another picture of him is on page 68, showing him six weeks ago buried under ice cubes. Bateman was then being "chilled" in preparation for a spectacular heart operation by Dr. Charles Bailey, TIME'S cover man this week. TIME'S color pictures follow that successful operation step by step into the patient's very heart. Bateman is only one of hundreds of patients who every month undergo dramatic cardiac surgery considered impossible only five years ago. To write the story...
...again rewarded, this time for his work on peaceful use of the atom and his, promotion of international cooperation among scientists. Nuclear Physicist Bohr, the founding nucleus of Denmark's famed Institute of Theoretical Physics, was chosen by Atoms for Peace Awards, financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund, to receive its first annual prize: $75,000 and a gold medal...
...year the enrollment jumped to 250. Though the courses are on the "graduate level intellectually." they are stripped of all technical jargon, require no specialized background. The whole idea is to make the broad concepts of physics intelligible to the future historian and major historical themes understandable to the physicist...