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...pages of fine print, the Oppenheimer case transcript contained ample evidence to show why the Atomic Energy Commission's personnel security board reached a 2-1 decision that Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance should be revoked...
...York Banker Gordon Dean, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1950-53. Dean had suffered some doubts about Oppenheimer's "very unpleasant early associations," but finally had concluded that the physicist was "a man of complete integrity ... a very devoted man to his country...
Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades since Leonardo da Vinci...
...drew plans for a one-man submarine and a "flying carriage." In Sweden's House of Nobles he spoke brilliantly in favor of trade, liquor-control laws, and the decimal system. He was a physicist who anticipated Kant and Laplace in the nebular hypothesis, and a paleontologist far ahead of his time. His contributions to science included a modern theory of molecular magnetics, a system of crystallography, a mercury air pump, and a method of determining longitude at sea from the moon...
...specially convened Atomic Energy Commission security board which found Physicist Robert Oppenheimer a security risk (TIME, June 14) also realized that Dr. Oppenheimer's fellow scientists might rise up to contest the verdict. In anticipation the board majority warned: "If scientists should believe that such a decision . . . however distasteful with respect to an individual, must be applicable to [the] whole profession, they misapprehend their own duties and obligations as citizens...