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...Jack Kevorkian, a retired physicist from Swathmore, Pa., discussing his attitude towards assisted-suicide. Kevorkian bears no relation to Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Michigan, who has acknowledged attending 45 deaths since...
...born physicist. Anticipating the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens by nearly two centuries, he propounds the law of wave motion, suggesting that it is water's "percussive" force rather than water itself that is moving. Sketching a water drop splattering on a flat surface, he catches its precise, crownlike spray in a stop-action image that was not verified until Harold Edgerton's high-speed photography at M.I.T. Impressive too are his moral sensibilities. He mentions that he has invented an underwater breathing device, then notes that divers could use it to sneak up on enemy ships and sink them...
...solar emissions, probing for the outer boundary of the solar system and even abetting the efforts of scientists pursuing SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. When Pioneer was launched in March 1972, its primary assignment, ordained by NASA, was to reach the environment of Jupiter. At the time, says physicist James Van Allen, the discoverer of Earth's radiation belt and a principal contributor to Pioneer's achievements, "this objective was regarded as a bold one." While unmanned U.S. and Soviet spacecraft had visited the inner planets, none had flown beyond Mars and braved the asteroid belt to reach Jupiter...
BORN: Feb. 6, 1934, Pipestone, Minn. EDUCATION: U of California, Berkeley, A.B., 1956, Ph.D., 1960 FAMILY: Wife, Johanna; four children RELIGION: Christian Reformed MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Professor; physicist political career: Kent County commissioner, 1975-83; Michigan House, 1983-85, Senate, 1985-93; U.S. House, 1993- ADDRESS: P.O. Box 3340, Grand Rapids...
BORN: March 6, 1920, Holtville EDUCATION: UCLA, B.A., 1946 FAMILY: Wife, Marta; two children, five stepchildren RELIGION: Methodist MILITARY: Army, 1942-46 OCCUPATION: Management consultant; physicist POLITICAL CAREER: Mayor of Monterey Park, 1955-58; California Assembly, 1959-62; U.S. House, 1962-; sought Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate, 1970 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 1867, Colton...