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Unlike the rest of his family, he was not an outstanding scientist, but carried on family tradition with his many gifts to the University Observatory and Museum of Comparative Zoology...
...coming to her." Said Greenglass: "I thought about it, and the following morning I told my wife I would give the information." Sergeant Greenglass told his wife the layout of the Los Alamos buildings, the number of workers, and the big names he knew-Dr. Robert Oppenheimer and a scientist known only as "Baker" who, Greenglass had learned, was really Dr. Niels Bohr. His wife, on Rosenberg's instructions, wrote none of the information down but dutifully memorized it all. On furlough in New York in January 1945, Greenglass really delivered...
Rosenberg asked him to write up anything he knew about the atomic project. Greenglass obliged and even added a sketch of a "lens mold" he was working on for use in the atom bomb itself. He drew a copy for the jury, and a Los Alamos scientist explained that these four-leaf-clover-shaped lenses were made of high explosives designed to focus detonation waves as an optical lens focuses light waves. This made an "implosion" rather than an explosion. The sketch, he said, was sufficient to show an expert "what was going on" at Los Alamos...
...Alan T. Waterman was appointed last week as first director of the National Science Foundation, whose principal job is to stimulate theoretical research. U.S. scientists were sure to cheer the choice. As chief civilian scientist in the Office of Naval Research, Dr. Waterman was largely responsible for the extraordinary respect which non-Government scientists feel toward ONR. Its ultimate objective was to develop weapons, but it did not limit itself to gadgeteering. Realizing that really new weapons can grow only from new theory, it encouraged all sorts of basic research, much of it far removed from direct weapons work...
Atomic authorities are still baffled by Scientist-Spy Klaus Fuchs, who has been locked in his British prison for twelve months of his 14-year sentence. As a trusted insider in both U.S. and British atom-bomb laboratories, Fuchs had an enormous amount of secret and vital information. He insists that he transmitted his knowledge to the Russians. If he did, the secrets might as well be published openly, with benefit to all Western scientists...