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...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, was the Women's National Press Club's choice for "woman of the year." Also huzzah'd: Dean Virginia Gildersleeve, 68, of Manhattan's Barnard College; All-But-Abstract Painter Georgia O'Keeffe, 58; Choreographer Agnes de Mille, 36; Novelist I. A. R. Wylie (The Young In Heart), 60; Johns Hopkins Psychiatrist Esther Loring Richards, 60; Shakespearean Actress-Director Margaret Webster, 40; Radio Program Director Margaret Cuthbert, 52; New York Times Editorialist AnneO'Hare McCormick, sixtyish; International Business Machines Vice President Ruth...
...built a practical radio as small as a wristwatch.* But last week, a National Bureau of Standards physicist announced that scientists had come close. A tiny new "skeleton" set, no bigger than a pack of cigarets, could be hidden in the palm of one hand, said...
...Lise Meitner, 67, refugee German physicist, pioneer contributor to the atomic bomb, arrived in New York City by plane from England, got a push-&-pull welcome from newsmen and relatives. Black-clad, quiet Dr. Meitner stepped from the plane, saw the crowd, promptly stepped back in again, got hold of herself, finally reemerged. Reporters let go with questions, cameramen with flash bulbs. A spotlight's fuse blew. "I'm so awfully tired," said Dr. Meitner. Relatives bustled her off. Next day she was in at the unveiling of the man-made meson (see SCIENCE). Next stop, after...
...minister, Dr. Houston was a college physics teacher at 20, a full professor at Cal Tech at 31, at 34 the author of a definitive text in mathematical physics. For several years during the 'war he worked on anti-submarine devices at Columbia University. No backslapping endowment hustler, Physicist Houston intends to continue his own researches (spectroscopy, the structure of solvents), to stiffen Rice's entrance requirements, and to keep sports a college sideline. Says he: "Football should serve principally to provide necessary physical relaxation." His first big task: to get the people of Houston (who pronounce...
Some day, the mountains of the moon may be accurately charted by radar. So says Britain's famed physicist, Sir Edward Appleton, the man who proved that the earth is swaddled in concentric, electrically charged layers of atmosphere. Sir Edward's theory: radio echoes, bounced off the moon's surface by an extremely short-waved transmitter, could be used to picture the moon's terrain...