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...Britain's Physicist-Traitor Klaus Fuchs...
Young John Rivers, a physicist who looks like a "Roman copy of Praxiteles," gets a chance in the early '205 to study with a pioneering genius in the field of atomics. The genius, Henry Maartens, is a wheezing hypochondriac who bubbles away on such topics as "fields of unembodied organization." Henry's personal universe "was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual...
...nonprofit subsidiary, Sandia Corp. His job: building atomic bombs, designing and developing new nuclear weapons. He directed the Sandia lab's expansion from 4,500 to 5,500 workers, did an outstanding job directing new developments-"without raising his voice or even his eyebrows." Said an associate, Physicist Norris Bradbury of Los Alamos: "I never saw him mad." President Quarles walked to work at the base so early that a resident who had never met the boss snorted: "I wonder who he's trying to impress?" Two years ago, taking his $10,000-a-year irrevocable pension from...
...talk that most stirred the conference's first week was a bold prophecy by India's Physicist Homi J. Bhabha, 45, conference president. Bound by none of the security regulations that so often gag U.S. experts, Bhabha predicted that by 1975 man will have tamed the H-bomb's fusion reaction and converted its tremendous energy (more than 1,000 times that of the Abomb) to useful electric power...
Astronomer Hiltner found a physicist's solution to the problem. At the university's Yerkes Observatory, he installed an aluminum shield, only four-millionths of an inch thick, between the photocathode and the photographic plate. The fast electrons passed right through the shield like light through a window; the foil prevented the water molecules from destroying the vulnerable cesium, hence the light booster could operate indefinitely...