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Principal credit for the fruitful channeling of this rich source of brainpower, announced Secretary of War Stimson, belongs to "the genius and inspiration" of slight, dark Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, 41, of the University of California and California Institute of Technology...
...grams were being measured out in place of micrograms. By last July 12, the scientists were ready to test their product. In an old ranch house on the New Mexican desert southeast of Albuquerque, a company of jittery men watched Cornell Physicist Robert Bacher assemble the first atomic bomb. At one point a vital part jammed. The scientists gasped but were coolly reassured by Bacher...
...Joint Board, headed by Dr. John Torrence Tate, a University of Minnesota physicist now working for OSRD, is intended to break the impasse. Its instructions: to prepare comprehensive public reports on radar and other wartime discoveries, notifying the British of release dates so that they will not be caught napping. Soon U.S. citizens will be able to get authoritative information about radar, one of the big unpublished stories of the war, before they pick it up in the street...
...James Stokley, old hands who had worked on three previous eclipses, frowned blackly at the cloud-covered eastern sky. They had rehearsed for weeks for this event. They had taken a Lloyds insurance policy against the disaster of a cloudy day. They and their 60 assistants (including famed Princeton Physicist Ira Freeman and his wife), were primed with cameras, light meters, other eclipse-recording paraphernalia...
Some day in the not-so-distant future, housewives may turn into ladies of leisure: they may have a trim, prefabricated power plant to do most of their house work. Dr. John J. Grebe, head physicist of Dow Chemical Co., has blueprinted a compact, 3,500-lb. unit which will cook, wash the dishes, wash, dry and iron clothes, freeze food and provide all bathroom facilities. The whole unit, says Grebe, is only a little bigger than an automobile and will sell for about the same price...