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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 28, 1947)
-Physicist Deplores Censor Of Scientific Data on Atom By JUNE GOETZE Assistant News Editor 1. Henry D. Smyth, professor of physics at Princeton university, Wednesday night contrasted the individual and international manner in which scientific discoveries were made n the past with proposed plans for government-sponsored laboratoiies and their inevitability of becoming nationalistic. In his Chapman hall speech Dr. Smyth explained that the situation was something of a dilemna and asked, "How are v\ e going to work in organized laboratories under some <rov ernment control and still preserve the kind of freedom that has fos tered scientific experimentation?” Deplores Restrictions The physicist deplored the re .»*strictions which now keep scien tific information from being cir culated freely and disclosed that information on any discovery pertaining to nuclear physics is not publishable unless approved by the atomic energy commission. Dr. Smyth held, however, that such restriction would be advis able were the United' States to enter a war within the next five or six years. He maintained, nev ertheless, that if there were no war within the next 20 years, the nation would be strongest in a military way if there were free dom of research internationally. War Stops Research ‘‘The war period was a period of cessation of scientific research, and a continuation of a war at mosphere will prevent the healthy rebirth of such research,” he said. Dr. Smyth asked the people in general what they were going to do to control such forces as have been released by nuclear fission. International Control He advocated control on an in ternational jfecale. “No matter what we do about secrecy, we can’t prevent other nations from making the bomb,” he commented, CLASSIFIED FOR SALE—Size 38 Tux—worn once. Phone Blachly, 3300, Ext. 327, evenings. *f iSST: Tan ski jacket, basement of Fenton Hall. Jim Fleming, Ext. 329. RECORDS NEW and USED Jazz and dance music al bums and singles at great saving. Priv. collection: Basie, James, Nichols, Carle Lu Watters, etc. See J. Howard at 343 E. 8th St. Ph. 3463-W explaining that the fundamental principles are widely known in scientific circles. The greatest contribution of the United States toward the inven tion of the atomic bomb was in applying the principles discovered by earlier scientists, he said. Resources Aid Perfection Some of the factors contribut ing to the United States' perfec tion of the bomb which he cited were the availability of resources and time, and the interruption of European research by the war. In his account of the progress of atomic physics during the past 50 years, Dr. Smyth* commented that in 1895 the state of physics was considered by many to be well stabilized with little reason to expect further major discov eries. The prevalent point of view at that time was that everything could be explained in terms of the laws of mechanics, he said. Physics Revolutionized He recounted how the establish ment of the existence of atoms, and the discoveries of X-qays, radioactivity, and the electron have revolutionized the study of physics. Until the publication of the Bohr theory of the structure of the hy drogen atom in 1913, atomic phy sics had been almost completely an experimental subject, but at that time the theoretical aspect was revealed, the physicist ex plained. Spring Is Sprung (Continued from page one) Only trouble is, you can’t even tell if he’s good-looking, for ten to one, he’s hiding behind a pair of sun glasses which make him look more like a beetle than a man. My goodness, who’d have thought so many convertibles would have come out of their co coons on the first golden days. The vacant seats in Latin class indicate, pretty surely, that ev eryone is, well, someplace else. Even “we sophisticates” become active when spring comes. One has to look twice to realize that the noisy bunch racing down the SRI tjspR* is Rs Lovely New Merchandise At Reduced Prices ONE DAY ONLY For That Dressy Look, or That Spring Cotton Visit The WESTGATE SHOPPE Next Door to the Side hill on bikes is a group of college folk, and not the twelve-year-olds from Edison school. We've even seen the kiddies roller skating on the quad in front of the library. Tennis and golf are a little pro saic, but deserve a mention be cause of their popularity. Horse back riding is a bit of a problem— the horses all have spring fever, too, it seems. Feed-the-Ants Week Oregon, the picnic ground of America! Well that’s the way it looks. Some eager beavers have been on six or seven outings al ready. Everyone knows about that type of picnic peculiar to our school. Heard about a picnic up ■j.t the northern branch last Sun day—the group headed out on their bikes with a sack of oranges, another of cookies, and three quarts of milk, and they made it back to the dorm by dark. No one even fell into the river. Yes, its spring, and who doesn’t love it? There’s a meadowlark on the telephone pole;-the cherry trees back of Friendly are in deli cate pink bloom, and, by golly, those lambs you see in the fields on the way to the beach are al ready half-grown. Seems like ’bout everybody’s happy in the spring!’ Campus Contests (Continued from page one) where students may obtain mem membership cards for a fee of $1. Miss Hanson pointed out Thursday that the object of the coming drive was primarily one of soliciting a large number of individual dona tions, rather than membership en rollment. JOIN EVANGELIST 6IPSY SMITH/; SON OF THE WORLD FAMOUS EVANGELIST GIPSY SMITH I^S^ARTHIM Ilf. 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