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...Physicist Wendell H. Furry, who refused to tell the Velde committee whether he had been a Communist before March 1, 1951. Actually, said the Corporation, he was a member until 1947. Even so, he "at no time permitted his connection with the party to affect his teaching, nor has he attempted otherwise to influence the political thinking of his students." One incident, however, did seem "grave misconduct" in the Corporation's eyes: as an officer of the American Association of Scientific Workers, "he told an investigating agent in 1944 that he had no reason to believe an applicant...
This spreading envelope of gas around the earth, says Johns Hopkins Physicist Gilbert N. Plass, serves as a great greenhouse. Transparent to the radiant heat from the sun, it blocks the longer wave lengths of heat that bounce back from the earth. At its present rate of increase, says Plass, the CO ² in the atmosphere will raise the earth's average temperature 1.5° Fahrenheit every 100 years...
Kodis specializes in microwave diffraction; Storer, in electric networks, wave propagation, and antenna radiation. Bryson comes from the Hughes Aircraft Company, where he is a research physicist...
Prince Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "Maybe the entire universe . . . from atom to spiral nebulae, is nothing but a tiny speck of a much vaster reality...
...sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...