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...spent most of World War II in jail); 3) Jessica, who eloped to Spain, married Winston Churchill's nephew, the late Esmond Romilly (missing in action since 1941), and is now married to a left-wing San Francisco lawyer; 4) Pamela, wife of Derek Ainslie Jackson, a British physicist who has ridden as a jockey in the Grand National Steeplechase...
...National Academy of Sciences added a "foreign associate" to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was worthy of the honor. Besides a monster string of Soviet decorations, he held medals from Belgium, Britain, and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia...
Conclusion: if Learned had had thyroid cancer, the radioactive iodine (the thyroid gland shows an affinity for iodine) would have attacked the cancerous tissue. With the caution which characterizes all statements on cancer. Physicist Evans emphasized that radioactive iodine was effective only against cancer of the thyroid...
...cleaning woman could be let in, because the workers were busy at all hours and highly secret papers were strewn everywhere. The only decorations were cobwebs until one of the group, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer (Caltech physicist and former director of the Los Alamos atomic bomb laboratory), returned from getting an honorary degree at the University of Pennsylvania. Looking around him, he exclaimed that he could not stand the dirty drabness any longer. Reaching into his suitcase, he pulled out his red and blue academic hood and hung it on a wall bracket-the only note of color...
...Defense. None of the contributors to One World or None believes that there can be an effective defense against airborne or rocket-borne atomic bombs. In a blackly pessimistic chapter, Physicist Louis N. Ridenour, radar expert, explains how even the most elaborate precautions cannot keep a good proportion of the bombs from hitting their targets. And just a few bombs, he feels, will be enough Before the start of World War III writes Physicist Edward U. Condon of the National Bureau of Standards, atomic saboteurs may sow the U.S. with hidden volcanoes waiting to erupt on a chosen Pearl Harbor...