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Marion S. Davis of New Rocneue, N. Y., who wants to be a pathologist, brought her project on drug resist ance in bacteria to the talent search
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John S. Letcher, Jr., of Baylor School, Chattanooga, Tenn., took first prize of $7500 in the Westinghouse talent search with an experimental atom smasher. H e designed the accelerator to provide a machine for studying resonant nuclear reactions. Letcher intends to continue his work in nuclear physics at CalTech
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Peter Vajk of Princeton ( N . J. ) High says rates of evolution depend on t h e intensity of radiation. Therefore, nuclear fallout should speed it up. H i s theory won him a $3000 scholarship to study paleontology and physics
Young Scientists Show Their Stuff JTORTV OF THE NATION'S most promis
ing high school scientists pocketed scholarships worth $34,250 in Wash ington, D . C , last week and returned home to plan their college careers. Five had won major awards, ranging from $3000 to $7500, in the 18th West inghouse Science Talent Search. The other 35 received $250 each. Four of the five top 1959 winners in 90
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the search plan to attend California In stitute of Technology next year to study nuclear and theoretical physics. John S. Letcher, Jr., first-prize winner, says, someday, after CalTech, he would like to work with a research team on nuclear propulsion systems for interplanetary travel. Letcher is president of his school's rocket club and captain of its ROTC unit.
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Robert N. McDonnell, $4000 winner, converts heat produced in graphite re actions to electricity in order to meas ure the small amounts generated. He plans a career ;n theoretical physics
Other CalTech aspirants, Carl Lyngholm, San Diego, Calif., Robert N. McDonnell, Park Ridge, 111., and Peter Vafk, Princeton Junction, N. J., placed third, fourth, and fifth, respectively, in the search. Lyngholm, who will study physics and math at CalTech, won $5000 for a project in Boolean algebra. He has also received two awards in chemistry—one from his high school and another from the San Diego Science Fair. Second-place winner, Frank \V. Grimm of Catonsville, Md., has a good start toward a teaching and writing career in zooiOgy. xiis scarcii project, on land snails won $6000 and Nautilus magazine will publish his survey of the land mollusk. Grimm is the only big Westinghouse winner who does not plan to go to CalTech. Instead, he will study at the University of Michigan. This year's talent search winners, 31 boys and nine girls, represent the cream of the crop, picked from 28,000 high school science students. They spent five days in Washington, soaking up science and showing their research ef forts while psychologists selected the five grand prize winners. Science Serv ice conducts the talent search for the Westinghouse scholarships and awards.
The "new dimension"? It's Instron's capacity to do more . . . and do it more accurately. Mere are a few examples: Instrons today are being used t o test materials ranging from acetate to zirconium with electronic precision . . . to examine single fibers of co»tton, wool and human hair . . . to obtain highly ac curate stress-strain "profiles'* of natural and arnanmade rubber . . . to record toughness of paper, using special digitizer and print-out equipmen t . . . to study stress, relaxation and recovery in plastics . . . to study the bonding strength of adhesiv-es. Instron's new dimension — its capacity t o do more things more accurately — enables R & D programs to move ahead faster, often into areas unapproachable with conventional testing equipment. Reprints of technical articles on advanced testing techniques, are now available. Just memtion your specific area of interest. For copies of these articles and :more information on the Instron, write:
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