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Journalists last month suddenly dragged a rather unwilling physicist out of secluded Lyman Laboratory into the public's view. Self-effacing Edward M. Purcell (as well as Stanford's Felix Bloch) had won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics and this was part of his reward. "First came the Swedish reporters," Purcell complained, "for they had advance notice. Things are beginning to quiet down now, and my wife and I have finally answered most of the mail," he added, looking up from his cluttered desk...
...cited the seeming disparity between the death sentence given the Rosenbergs and the mere jail sentence dealt Klaus Fuchs, British physicist who confessed to what Sarton termed "worse crimes...
...Virginia's former Governor William M. Tuck followed Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd in saying that he could not endorse the Democratic national ticket. ¶Physicist Albert Einstein said Stevenson would get his vote because "I trust his integrity, judgment and intelligence." Syndicated Columnist Dorothy Thompson announced she would vote for Eisenhower "against Truman and Trumanism." ¶Arkansas' third largest afternoon paper, the Pine Bluff Commercial, broke an 84-year-old precedent, came out for Eisenhower, explained to its readers that it wasn't "whole hog" Republican-only "just...
...part in constructing the bomb and handling the test explosion, Physicist Penney (TIME, Oct. 13) will be knighted. He first learned this on a news broadcast; Churchill had tried to reach him beforehand but the telephone operator refused to give out Dr. Penney's unlisted home telephone number even when told that the Prime Minister was calling...
Safe No. Foreign scientists, all friendly to the U.S., add their protests, and say that the McCarran Act has already damaged U.S. prestige. Says Physicist M. Louis Leprince Ringuet of France: "I have even had occasion to see the expression 'Iron Curtain of the West' applied quite widely to the U.S." Says Professor M. L. Oliphant of Australia, who was refused a visa although he was a key man in the U.S. atom bomb project: "At times I feel very bitter about the situation, since I believe that, in the fields of radar and atomic energy, I have...