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...scientist, of all persons, should be able to stop where knowledge stops, namely with Nature, and be bold enough to confess and to live with the great gulf of the unknown which lies beyond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 3, 1951 | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Krick's method uses coke-burning generators which send silver-iodide particles skyward to increase precipitation. His theories of weather forecasting and rainmaking have been opposed by the U.S. Weather Bureau, Physicist Irving Langmuir, who started cloud seeding, and many another scientist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEATHER: Milkman of the Skies | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Spelunking along the Spanish border early this summer, Scientist Georges Lépineux watched a black mountain crow fly into a yawning pit and disappear. Since crows love dark recesses almost as much as speleologists do, Amateur Geologist Lépineux rushed to investigate. A small cave led off the pit floor, and a few feet inside the cave mouth a limestone chimney dropped away into darkness. Cautiously, Lépineux heaved a rock into the opening, waited for the faint, faraway sounds of its fall. Then he rushed to report his discovery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Cave Hunters | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

...scientist who presented the report which won the $1000 A.A.A.S. award described on page four is Carroll M. Williams, associate professor of Zoology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Erratum | 8/16/1951 | See Source »

Other M.P.s, both Labor and Tory, heatedly echoed the question. Cause of the commotion was Australian-born Scientist Eric Burhop, 40, leftish lecturer in physics at London University who had spent some 18 months during World War II working on atom projects in the U.S. Last fortnight, just as Burhop was about to leave for a "good will" trip to Moscow with 19 other members of the British-Soviet Friendship Society, his passport was canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Right to Leave | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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