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...Robert J. Moon is a Chicago physicist who worked on the famed Manhattan Project. Thus, he knows a lot of "classi fied" (secret) facts about how Jo make atomic bombs. Last week he came to the rueful conclusion that his knowledge was threatening to be a bar to professional advancement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Before and after his service on the Man hattan Project, 36-year-old Physicist Moon worked on atomic research at the University of Chicago. Last year McMasters University at Hamilton, Ont. offered him a job as head of its physics department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...Safety. This was not the clearcut ruling that Physicist Moon wanted and it was not the clarification that many an other U.S. scientist had hoped for. Nuclear physics includes a bewildering mass of facts, figures and principles. Some are "classified" and known only (the AEC hopes) to scientists in its confidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dangerous Knowledge | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

...make-up of the commission was almost as interesting as its 448-page report. The chairman: Physicist Karl Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The members: Joseph (Mission to Moscow) Davies, ex-Ambassador to Russia and sometime apologist for the Soviet Union; the Rev. Daniel Poling, noted Baptist minister and editor of the Christian Herald; Charles E. Wilson, president of General Electric Co. and wartime vice-chairman of WPB; the Rev. Edmund Walsh, Georgetown University geopolitician; Samuel Rosenman, onetime adviser and ghostwriter to Franklin Roosevelt; Dr. Harold Dodds, president of Princeton University; Truman Gibson Jr., Negro attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Reluctant, Unanimous | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

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