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...George B. Pegram, dean of the graduate faculties, who was named vice president of the university to direct "educational affairs." A physicist's physicist, Dr. Pegram was a key man in the early development of the U.S. atomic energy program, directed Columbia's war research from...
...Dwight, the announcement came as no great surprise. The son of a Pasadena physicist, he has also been studying the distribution, taxonomic position and ecology of mollusks in Southern California. Where would all this lead him (after four years at the University of Michigan)? "Oh, I'll probably end up in some university museum or something. One can't live on just nothing...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...
...first meeting, the council heard from Physicist Harry C. Kelly, acting chief of SCAP's scientific technical division. Said Kelly: "We here share the responsibility of reintroducing Japanese science to the rest of the world . . . We have learned to recognize only the external aspects of Japanese culture, but we know that you Japanese scientists have as much to contribute...
...themselves, the delegates proved that they had already learned a good deal about the facts of democratic life. They adroitly outmaneuvered the inevitable leftist clique and elected their officers by pressure-proof secret balloting. Chemist Naoto Kameyama of Tokyo University was chosen president. Second vice president is world-famed Physicist Yoshio Nishina, who wept when U.S. soldiers demolished his cyclotron...