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...ttingen last week, cheerful, bushy-browed Dr. Werner Heisenberg, a top German physicist and winner of the 1932 Nobel Prize, said that Russia had made a standing offer of $6,000 a year to any German atomic scientist who would work for the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: Sensible Advance | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...negative meson which scientists already know about. In its normal habitat within an atomic nucleus, it "lives" only one hundredth of a sextillionth (1/100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000th) of a second. The neutral meson's brief life, remarked Professor Oppenheimer, may be the reason no physicist has yet seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Einstein Stopped Here | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

Died. Paul Langevin, 74, Nobel-Prize-winning French physicist, whose studies of sound waves gave a basis for modern methods of submarine depth sounding, onetime associate of radium discoverers Pierre & Marie Curie; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 30, 1946 | 12/30/1946 | See Source »

...ordered Fermi a few minutes later. Physicist Walter H. Zinn pulled out the Zip rod and tied it carefully. The counters clicked still faster. The graph pen moved up again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zip Out | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

...Pull it to 13 feet, George," commanded Fermi. Physicist George Weil drew the final control rod part way out of the pile. Faster clicked the counters. He drew it out another foot; then another six inches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zip Out | 12/9/1946 | See Source »

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