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During World War II, the physicist directed the Los Alamos laboratory that perfected the atomic bomb. In the spring of 1954, Oppenheimer was declared a "security risk" but not "disloyal" by a 2-1 decision of the Atomic Energy Commission...
...colleagues in the university," the physicist said, "the scientist tends to seem more a man from another planet, a creature uttering profound but incomprehensible truths, or a technician scattering antibiotics with one hand and atomic bombs with the other...
...conception of the structure of the universe may result from the discovery of the anti-proton, I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize physicist and 1955 Morris Loeb Lecturer, said yesterday...
...draft the new plan, Nehru picked Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, 62, head of the sprawling Calcutta University Statistical Institute. Cambridge-trained Professor Mahalanobis, a physicist turned economist, has achieved a sensational rise in prestige, stands as close to Nehru on economic matters as Krishna Menon does on foreign affairs. Mahalanobis has stocked the institute's library with the works of Stalin and Mao Tse-tung and the proceedings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, bound in calf. To help draft the plan, Mahalanobis got the services of ten Soviet economists to assist his staff. Mahalanobis has been called a Communist...
...Second Law of Thermodynamics, generally credited to German Physicist Rudolf Julius Emmanuel Clausius (1822-88), teaches in its simplest form that heat of its own accord will always flow from higher to lower temperature...