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Although the program in Nuclear Engineering will unity the courses currently offered by the Division and by the Department of Physics in nuclear physics and quantum theory, the nuclear studies will not be set up as a separate field in Applied Science. Instead, a student will combine his studies of nuclear studies within another engineering area...
...were considered equal. As a result of this thesis, the trial judge in Maryland and Indiana to this day must instruct the jurors in criminal cases that they are judges not only of the facts but of the law. An outgrowth of the equalitarian theory was a quantum jump in the number of men considered qualified for the bench, and pressures built up to rotate judicial offices. The result: popular election of judges for short terms...
...first A-bomb which shattered Hiroshima struck out at its victims over about 7 square miles. Compared with the TNT blockbuster, this primitive nuclear weapon constituted a "quantum jump" in the instruments of war. On November 1, 1952, a much more powerful bomb spread its blast-heat punch over 300 square miles. This was Quantum Jump No. 2. The world did not have long to wait for No. 3. It came on March 1, 1954, with the fallout of radioactive particles over thousands of square miles of the Pacific. Quantum Jump No. 3-the lethal radioactive fallout-is still...
Then, in the 1930s, CalTech's Chemist Linus Carl Pauling attacked the useful but mysterious bonds from the new angle of quantum theory. He found that the "resonance" of the atoms (their internal vibration) is the source of the forces that hold molecules together. His book, The Nature of the Chemical Bond, is one of the classics of modern science...
...Nobel Prize in Physics for 1954 was divided between two Germans: Drs. Max Born and Walther Bothe, who were leaders in the "new physics" that started with relativity and quantum theory and ended (so far) with the hydrogen bomb. Dr. Born, 72, who fled Germany in the mid-'30s is credited with much of the difficult mathematics that enabled physicists to understand the behavior of atoms...