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...Danish accent, Bohr spoke last week on "The Observation Problem in Atomic Physics." It is, it seems, a tough one for the meticulous physicist. If you know where an electron is, you cannot measure its velocity; if you know its velocity, you cannot know where it is. There is also the difficulty of stopping time in its tracks while making an observation. It should be done, but it's impossible...
American Forum of the Air (Tues. 9:30 p.m., Mutual). "Atomic Energy Who Should Control It?" Harold Stassen, Physicist Irving Langmuir, Representatives Clare Boothe Luce and J. Parnell Thomas...
...superior officers. But last week breezy, young (30) Bill Pardridge was having his say about aviation, and the air world was listening. As founder and editor of the quarterly Air Affairs he had rounded up for his first issue a star-studded list of contributors headed by Atomic Physicist Harold C. Urey. It was all free, too; the writers wrote for love...
Under the first chief, Physicist Joseph Henry, the Smithsonian's scientists, trying to do "pure research" amid the clutter, kept fairly close to the main stream of scientific progress. They set up an effective weather reporting system before the Weather Bureau, did important work in other fields. Later chiefs also had their triumphs; Samuel Pierpont Langley, the most famous, worked out the principles of the airplane before the Wright brothers made one that would...
...minute unit of length, named for Swedish Physicist A. J. Angstrom. One angstrom is one hundred millionth of a centimeter...