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...scientist's brain was as good as ever. In 1948 he became nationally known as co-discoverer (with Dr. Giulio Lattes) of the man-made meson, a basic atomic particle produced by the 184-inch cyclotron at the University of California (TIME, March 15, 1948). About the same time his disease was finally diagnosed correctly as berylliosis (beryllium poisoning...
Joliot-Curie, French atom scientist, Russian Writer Ilya Ehrenburg and Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. One delegate to get through was Pablo Picasso, Spanish-born painter. "C'est terrible" cried Picasso, describing the thorough security screening of congress delegates arriving on cross-channel steamers...
Once, to show how fear affects the human body, Poole had a scientist toss a king snake at a woman who had been wired for reaction; the audiometer recorded her leaping heartbeats. Another night, X rays were taken of a woman's lungs, developed and held up for the TV audience to inspect. Review viewers have seen how polluted water looks under a microscope, how plastics are made, chemists trained, and atoms frozen...
...Achievement of world peace is of course the aim of every social scientist, and the sooner he can perpetrate an understanding among nations the sooner he will realize a harmony among the national groups. We must begin with the foundation now," Sorokin believes...
...football team, a women's college, and a topflight drama department capable of turning out Broadway stars (among them: Arthur Kennedy, Robert Cummings). Then, in 1936, Carnegie got President Robert E. Doherty, onetime dean of the School of Engineering at Yale and a protege of the late great scientist and G.E. engineer, Charles Steinmetz...