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...Samuel F. B. Morse's ignorance of the best scientific thought a century ago saved him from impediment in his early experiments with the telegraph. . . . Had Morse been a physicist with a physicist's specialized knowledge of [contemporary] theory ... it is quite possible that his great plan of making the universe 'by kingdom right wheel' might never have passed beyond the stage of a dinner table conversation. It reminds me of the validity of a recent saying by Mr. Owen D. Young that our greatest assets are the things we do not know...
...Ernest Orlando Lawrence, 33, wears octagonal spectacles and harries the atom with an 85-ton electromagnet in a ramshackle old building on the University of California's campus. Dr. Lawrence and his associates have done the most intensive work in the U.S. on artificial radioactivity. Lately the young physicist succeeded in inducing radioactivity in sodium. Since common salt contains sodium, the prospect immediately arose of injecting harmless but radioactive saline solutions into the human body as a cancer remedy. Few weeks ago Dr. Lawrence was appointed a research consultant of Columbia University's Crocker Institute for Cancer Research...
...this abyss, Dr. Swann had recourse to modern laboratory experiments which show radiation transformed back into matter. Every physicist under 35, he declared, would agree with him that such demonstrations are valid. What apparently happens is that the quantum of radiation, scoring a hit on an atomic nucleus, vanishes and gives birth to an electron and a positron-i.e., particles of matter. The quantum of radiation is "mathematically irritated" by the atomic nucleus into giving up its existence. Here Dr. Swann ran into the difficulty that in his sea of radiation there would be no atomic nuclei to provide...
...danger. It may be a fair question to ask whether the author of such a destructive public attack . . . has disclosed such a complete lack of any sense of social responsibility that by his own act he has classified himself among the dangerous men of our time." Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Arthur Holly Compton thought that "in a university, if radical viewpoints were not discussed, it would mean that such a university was intellectually stagnant...
...objective of an organization announced last week by a handful of high-minded Washington scientists, journalists and laymen. A Delaware-chartered corporation called Research Associates Inc., the group includes Frederick Gardner Cottrell of the U. S. Bureau of Chemistry & Soils; Chester G. Gilbert of Manhattan's Research Corp.; Physicist Frederick Sumner Brackett of the U. S. Department of Agriculture; President William McClellan of Potomac Electric Power Co.; Senior Surgeon Dr. Royd Ray Sayers and Engineer Carl E. Julihn of the U. S. Bureau of Mines; Editor Watson Davis of Science Service; Dr. William Charles White of the National Tuberculosis...