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...chose physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of Princeton's Institute of Advanced Study, Vannevar Bush of the Atomic Energy Commission, John Dickey, President of Dartmouth College and Allen W. Dulles of the Central Intelligence Agency for the task. These in turn picked Bundy...
...Communists. Meanwhile, the Big Lie is spread with undiminished intensity by Russian and Chinese press and radio, by such native-son instruments as New York's Daily Worker and the West Coast's Daily People's, by France's Humanite and its Communist-Physicist Frederic Joliot-Curie...
...Atomic City (Paramount) is a neat little B-budget thriller of grade-A caliber about G-men hunting down H-bomb spies. The fun begins when foreign agents kidnap a nuclear physicist's son and hold him for a ransom in atomic formulas. The cops & robbers story is an old formula itself, but the tightly knit screenplay bristles with tingling action and intriguing mechanical devices used by the FBI operatives to track down the criminals: car-to-car telephones, kinescope, television cameras with zoom lenses...
...microscope, which cost a third of a million dollars to develop and build, is so revolutionary in principle that scientists associated with the project had to start practically from scratch anl develop whole new areas of theory. According to William A. Shurcliff '40, Polaroid physicist who co-ordinated teams of physicists, chemists, and biologists on the project. "We had to throw everything we knew about microscopes out of the window...
...initial idea of the ultraviolet microscope is the product of Edwin H. Land '31, a Ph.D. physicist and President and Director of research of the Polaroid Corporation. While working on other research in 1948, he got the idea of the application of polarized screens to the ultraviolet source...