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Boyish-looking Robert Oppenheimer stole the show at the Joint Atomic Energy Committee's hearing. For 2½ hours, the cropped-haired scientist set forth the intricacies of atomic science, gave sure, rapid-fire answers to polite questions-and punched gaping holes in Iowa Senator Bourke Hickenlooper's foundering one-man campaign against AEC Chairman David Lilienthal...
...only fair to let the record show that General Groves knew all along that Frank Oppenheimer had been a Communist who had broken clean before he went to work on the atomic bomb. "And," added Russell, "Dr. Oppenheimer's loyalty was vouched for by an outstanding scientist." Russell didn't name the outstanding scientist to the committee, but confided it to newsmen afterwards. It was brother Robert...
Other speakers were Captain A. L. Pleasants, U.S.N., Commanding Officer, Boston Branch, Office of Naval Research; Alan T. Waterman, Deputy Chief and Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research; H. M. MacNeille, Chief of the Fundamental Research Branch, Division of Research, Atomic Energy Commission; Urner Liddel, Acting Director of the Physical Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research; and Lee L. Davenport, Associate Director of the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory...
...award was accompanied by a citation which read in part "to one who won a place of great prominence in the sciences; an outstanding and distinguished scientist who has successfully combined the activities of home and career...
...Schmidt telescope was invented by Estonian-born Bernhard Schmidt (1879-1935). Scientist Schmidt spent years studying the failings of refracting (lens) telescopes and reflecting (mirror) telescopes. Finally he devised a sort of compromise. His telescope has a concave spherical mirror, which is much easier to make than the parabolic mirror of a reflecting telescope. In front of it, to bring the light to a focus without "spherical aberration," is a correcting plate so slightly curved that it looks like plain sheet glass. The Schmidt telescope's advantage: it can take pictures of large patches of sky and have them...