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...story starts in 1934 when George Gamow, a Russian physicist who had escaped from the U.S.S.R., arrived in the U.S. Gamow had a tale to tell that flashed back to 1932. He had talked at a Russian scientific meeting about a paper by an English astronomer and a German physicist who suggested that the energy radiated by the sun and other stars was caused by reactions between atomic nuclei. A nonscientist, Nikolai Bukharin, a top Communist official in the post-Lenin era, approached Gamow. He asked Gamow if nuclear reactions like those of the sun could be created on earth...
...next day, the State Board of Regents upheld President Schmitz by refusing a petition form over 1,000 University students seeking an invitation for the physicist. The Atomic Energy Commission last spring declared Oppenheimer a "security risk" but did not question his loyalty...
...from the political balances altogether, allowing other to determine social values. The consensus seems to be that if scientists would return to their laboratories and judges retire to their benches, democracy could work more smoothly for the betterment of all. A critic of the University of Chicago's nuclear physicist Harold C. Urey, who recently questioned the fairness of the Rosenburg and Sobell treason trials, wrote that "Professor Urey is undoubtedly a scientist of high order, that fact does not equip him to hold an opinion better than the rest of us who may not know how to make heavy...
...Physicist RALPH E. LAPP, in the BULLETIN OF THE ATOMIC SCIENTISTS...
Bigger Steak. Last year's coach, Physicist J. W. Buchta, who is now on loan to the Government for a year, thinks Minnesota is so successful because the team was chosen carefully to begin with "We didn't look only at their marks but also at their ability to think quickly and intuitively. One of last year's best team members was actually found to be on probation after he had made the team...