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Almost as soon as they began trailing Scientist X around Berkeley, Calif, back in 1943, atomic security agents began to have grave doubts about his reliability. Though he toiled faithfully enough at his work at the University of California's radiation laboratories, the agents reported that he was cozying up after hours to Steve Nelson, a known Communist leader. But it was not until 1949 that the House Un-American Activities Committee identified Scientist X as a black-haired young physicist named Dr. Joseph W. Weinberg, and flatly accused him of passing wartime atomic secrets to Nelson...
...refrigerants that circulate from great tanks on the roof. The "Wet Snow" lab, warmest of the six, stays at one degree above freezing, while one man at a time works with snow shipped down by refrigerated trucks from Michigan and northern Wisconsin. The added body heat of a second scientist might melt away an expensive experiment...
Nobel Prize winner Purcell said that the physical scientist "must like the atmosphere of research and the type of challenge it presents...
...Silent World, a French navy captain named Jacques-Yves Cousteau, inventor of the "aqualung," describes his underwater adventures with a scientist's care and a poet's feeling...
...could, and promptly did. Senior Scientist Roy Fritz (who is working for a Ph. D. in entomology) and Nurse Albina Bozym flew west. For weeks they worked from early morning till late at night, checking on the Camp Fire Girls' recent illnesses. They found six more cases of malaria. The girls must have been infected at Lake Vera. Mosquitoes trapped there proved to be the disease-carrying kind. But who took the malaria there to begin with...