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Soft-pedaling the covered-wagon past, Physicist-President Albert Ray Olpin invited, as a principal centennial guest, fellow Physicist Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of CalTech, to talk on "The Crisis in Science." Among the other festivities were the world premiere of Utah-born Composer Leroy Robertson's first...
Then came the climax of the evening-while 300 guests peppily applauded, the principal speaker was introduced. He was none other than crusty, white-haired Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 81, CalTech's famed physicist and Nobel Prizewinner, and therefore sufficiently a man of parts to do what a lot of long-suffering after-dinner speakers only tell their wives they wish they had done. Millikan rose with the air of a man who had been bound to a chair in a locked bank vault and said: "My definition of an educated person is one who can concentrate...
Tons of Neutrons. This week, on a similar broadcast, Brown repeated his shocker. Physicist Leo Szilard of Chicago added that 50 tons of neutrons released by hydrogen fusion could ring the earth with a radioactive dust layer capable of killing the earth's entire population. Physicists Frederick Seitz of the University of Illinois and Hans Bethe of Cornell, appearing on the same program, were more moderate, but they went along generally with their emphatic colleagues...
...year-old scientist, top theoretical physicist employed at the Harwell atomic research laboratory outside of London, pleaded guilty to seven years of atomic spying for Russia...
...read it I probably couldn't understand it." Said Dr. Urey: "I could wring that reporter's neck! It was just an idle remark. Who cares that I don't understand the theory of relativity and/or gravity? I'm just a poor chemist, not a physicist. It would mean something if [Dr.] Robert Oppenheimer said...