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Secret Army. Their general is a shrewd, imaginative physicist, Dr. Vannevar (rhymes with beaver) Bush, in peacetime president of the Carnegie Institution's vast scientific empire. His job is unprecedented in U.S. military history: as chairman of the Army & Navy's Joint Committee on New Weapons and Equipment, he is the first civilian technician ever to sit in the highest war councils. The Office of Scientific Research and Development, which he commands, is in effect a fifth branch, G5, of the military general staff. Under OSRD (working with the Army's and Navy's own laboratories...
...Manhattan architect's daughter. Small, dark Anne learned her science from books and at Manhattan's swank Brearley School. Like Amber, she is an athlete, musician (piano) and likes to paint. A specialist in atomic theories, she plans to go to Radcliffe and become a research physicist...
Scientists have debated such possibilities for nearly a hundred years. The great physicist Helmholtz believed that life was brought to the earth by meteorites.* Laboratory workers have known for some time that bacteria and other living cells can survive extreme cold close to absolute zero ( - 273.18 C.), the supposed temperature of interplanetary space. The University of California's Professor Charles B. Lipman once claimed that he had actually found living bacteria locked in meteorites millions of years...
...widely famed city planner in Britain and on the Continent before the war, organized a national road-plan exhibit for the Royal Institute of British Architects, is now studying U.S. city problems on a grant from the American Philosophical Society. His collaborators are his wife-a physicist teaching at Queens College-and a Harvard architect, Constantin Pertzoff...
Morse's group solved this problem by making large, high-powered versions of a diffusion pump invented by General Electric's Physicist Irving Langmuir. The diffusion pump works by blowing a strong jet of mercury or oil vapor into the neck of the vessel to be emptied. The vapor stream traps air molecules and sweeps them out through a series of locks. With this equipment, Morse got down to a working vacuum of one micron (a thousandth of a millimeter...