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...others: Professor Alan Nunn May, convicted in 1946 as a member of Canada's atomic spy ring; Physicist Klaus Fuchs, now serving a 14-year sentence for selling atomic secrets to Russia; Cosmic-Ray Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo, who fled, presumably for Moscow, in 1930. Two other Foreign Office men, Diplomats Donald MacLean and Guy Burgess, who disappeared last year and have not been heard of since, are presumed to have fled beyond the Iron Curtain...
Cornell's Peter Debye, 68, Nobel Prize-winning chemist and physicist, author of the Debye theory of the specific heat of solids. Born in The Netherlands, Debye succeeded Einstein as professor of theoretical physics at the University of Zurich, served as director of Berlin's Max Planck Institute until the Nazis drove him out ("Stay at home and occupy yourself by writing a book," they told him), in 1940 finally made his way to Cornell. There, perpetually wreathed in cigar smoke, he pioneered in high polymer research, taught Cornellmen their chemistry, and each year managed to make them...
...tail of the problem: "The common external tangent of two tangent circles of radii 8 inches and 2 inches is - ." Fortunately, the class secretary, 15-year-old Johanna Mankiewicz, had an inspiration. All the class had to do, she decided, was to write a letter to the Most Famous Physicist in the World...
Apparently, it wasn't too hard for the Famous Physicist, for he replied by return airmail, though he forgot to put a 6? stamp on the envelope. In any case, Johanna got his letter, with a diagram* and instructions on how to do the problem. The Physicist's diagram merely suggested that a right triangle can be formed from 1) the line of centers, 2) a line parallel to the common tangent and running through the center of the smaller circle, and 3) the radius of the larger circle. The length of the tangent can then be found...
...Probably a rather baffling diagram for Johanna. Instead of drawing the tangent circles the problem called for, the Physicist spread his circles apart, introduced a third circle with a radius equal to the difference between the radii of the original...