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...eight performers (a chemistry teacher, a solicitor's clerk, a printer, a policeman, an Oxford undergraduate, a divinity teacher, a market gardener and a physicist) ate a big predawn breakfast at the King's Head Hotel and, at 4 a.m., climbed the squat red-brick campanile of Taylor's bell foundry. Inside the ringing chamber, the eight ringers strapped a variety of containers to their legs, ranging from hot water bags to bicycle bottles (also known in the U.S. as "motormen's pals"). On shelves around them was a selection of food-chocolate, oranges, bananas, grapes...
Martin, a theoretical physicist, did not check his calculations experimentally, but he explained how it might be done by simple tests, and he invited other scientists to make the observations. Thus far, no scientist, French or foreign, has communicated to him any findings on the global effects of the H-bombs that have been exploded. This is not because the scientists are not interested, says Martin, or because they do not agree with him. He claims that many of them are privately on his side, but cannot support him publicly. He is sure that the world's weather bureaus...
...short, unexcited paper presented to the French Academy of Sciences has provoked a storm of foreboding in the French press and public. Written by physicist Charles-Noel Martin and sponsored by the Nobel Prizewinning Prince Louis de Broglie, it is entitled "On the Cumulative Effects of Thermonuclear [Hydrogen] Explosions on the Surface of the Globe...
...Later Physicist Arthur Compton telephoned President James Conant of Harvard, who was chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, and gave lim a prearranged code message. Said Compton: "The Italian navigator has reached the New World...
Died. Enrico Fermi, 53, world-famed Italian-born nuclear physicist who supervised the building of the first successful nuclear reactor; of cancer; in Chicago (see SCIENCE...