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...French physicist and philosopher estimated that it would be some 50 years, "or perhaps a country," before the areas of theoretical physics and chemistry will be exhausted...
...Dirac theory of electron behavior has been the bible of wave (quantum) mechanics.* Last week Columbia University announced that two of its young scientists, Professor Willis Lamb, 34, and Robert Retherford, 35, had knocked a prop from under the Dirac theory. Their experiment, said Columbia's Nobel Physicist Isidor Isaac Rabi, revealed new facts which will be of "inestimable value in future research...
...Germans never came very close to making a bomb, apparently. In a recent issue of Britain's Nature magazine, German Nobel-Physicist Werner Heisenberg tells how they almost achieved a successful uranium pile; but they did not even try to make a bomb...
Others have been declassified; they were discovered before the war, or have been recently discovered by independent scientists. No physicist who possesses secret information can be entirely sure what is safe to talk about. If he talks to foreign agents (or even to Americans not approved by the FBI) he might conceivably be risking the death penalty...
...Brookhaven, L.I., a dragline excavator manned by a nuclear physicist broke ground last week for the first chain-reacting pile to be built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...