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...ATOM Way to Survive Haunting many minds in the Atomic Age is the dark thought that an H-bomb or H-missile attack would be so devastating that survivors, if any, would be reduced to Stone Age primitiveness. Not necessarily, says Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory, and sometimes called (he modestly disclaims the tag) "father of the H-bomb." Writing on "The Nature of Nuclear Warfare" in this month's Air Force, Teller argues that a nuclear attack on the U.S. need not be "cataclysmic" and casualties...
Tall, blond, athletic Luis Alvarez, 45, is not only a leading physicist; he is also an inventor, a somewhat Buck Rogersish adventurer and an old-style American success story. After completing his graduate studies in 1936 at the University of Chicago (where he learned to fly an airplane in 3 hours and 15 minutes of instruction), he joined the Radiation Laboratory of the University of California. In 1940 he migrated to Cambridge, where Massachusetts Institute of Technology was setting up its great Government radar laboratory. There he invented and developed G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach), the radar blind-landing system which...
...Nuclear physicists are "in the position of a boy who finds a penny and thinks he is on the way to becoming a millionaire." So says famed Physicist Luis Alvarez of the University of California, who spoke last week before a Monterey meeting of the American Physical Society. Dr. Alvarez made an announcement that excited scientists and engineers all over the world. He offered nothing practical, only some odd, squiggly lines and a mass of abstruse interpretation. But the lines and theories may eventually grow into a new and better kind of nuclear energy...
...Berkeley bevatron. Worse still, mu mesons are short-lived, decaying into other particles in two-millionths of a second, so they have little time to act as catalysts. If a longer-lived particle could be found that does the catalytic service, the reaction would look promising indeed. The Russian physicist Artemy Alikhanian claims to have evidence that such a particle exists, but no non-Russian has confirmed his claims...
...This series is the biggest thing we've ever attempted," says Rice, who has made some 85 educational shows (including a series with Atom Physicist Edward Teller). "It needed to be done, if only as a historical document." The document was crudely etched. Because both funds and the spare time of modern scientists were at a premium, there were few rehearsals and few retakes. Budgetary corners were sharply cut, e.g., when Seaborg asked for a relief globe he got a weather balloon, and when that burst, made do with a beach ball. But the producers and performers...