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Lest the news from Paris terrify timid people, Physicist John Ray Dunning of Columbia said that fission experimenters now believe there is an automatic check against a multiplying chain reaction getting out of control. The accelerating release of atomic energy would heat up the uranium specimen; this heat would speed up the neutrons beyond the point of maximum effectiveness for fissions, and the reaction would therefore slow down, and stop...
King of the atomic world at Westinghouse is Dr. Edward Uhler Condon, Coauthor of Quantum Mechanics and The Theory of Atomic Spectra, a distinguished theoretical physicist at Princeton before going to East Pittsburgh two years...
...scientific concept of the ether -an all-pervading medium which transmits light and gravitational force-is a nine-lived cat. Supposedly killed off several times, it still keeps pattering around science's pantry. Last week Dr. Herbert Eugene Ives, an astute and merry physicist who works for Bell Telephone Laboratories in Manhattan, gave the old tabby a good strong shot of mathematical adrenalin...
...what a Stradivarius or a Guarnerius is, knows that these famed fiddles made in Cremona more than 200 years ago are considered the best in the world. Supposedly unrecapturable is the secret of the Cremona makers-whether it was construction, shape, wood or varnish. Professor Frederick Albert Saunders, Harvard physicist, has long been making a scientific analysis of the tone quality and playing performance of Stradivarius and Guarnerius violins in comparison with the best modern instruments. Last week, in the Journal of the Franklin Institute, he published his findings...
Hans Albrecht Bethe likes skiing, economics and riding on trains, but spends most of his time mulling over theoretical physics. Last summer he married Rose Ewald, daughter of a distinguished Ger man theoretical physicist exiled in Ireland. At Cornell, Dr. Bethe lives with his wife and mother in a cottage in Cayuga Heights. He does most of his work in an easy chair in the living room. Tools : a stack of reference books, a batch of paper, a slide rule, a fountain pen, a powerful brain...