Członkinie lokalnej stosować, spędzeniu animowana jest dużo i naiwnej dziewczynki Roberts has been honored by the New England Chapter of The Society of Nuclear Medicine for the role he played the development of radioactive iodine for medical diagnostics. Dr. Roberts was a research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and, along with Robley D. Evans, participated the pioneering research initiated by the late Dr. Hertz the late 30's and early 40's which established the usefulness of radioactive iodine research thyroid metabolism and the treatment of thyroid disease. Isolating the iodine isotope their pioneering study, they found that when administered to rabbits the iodine could be detected the thyroid gland just a few minutes later. Foreseeing this to be important application of the results of their basic research they sought and obtained funds to build the cyclotron at MIT, completed 1941 under the direction of M. Livingston for the production of the radioactive iodine. As a consequence of this pioneering work and later follow-up studies, radioactive iodine is now routinely used as a tracer the diagnosis of thyroid disorders. larger quantities it is used to deliver radiation to the thyroid for the treatment of several types of thyroid disease, including cancer of the thyroid. 1942 Dr. Roberts moved to the MIT Radiation Laboratory where he worked on the development of microwave radar. Important research is one of two lanes Roberts' traffic pattern. At the same time that he studied for his master's degree physics at Columbia University, he was a student at the Manhattan School of Music, majoring piano, receiving degrees from both schools simultaneously 1933. At this crossroad he chose physics, when I realized that if I chose music, I would have to give up physics, but the music could go along with the physics, he points out. His Ph.D. physics from New University followed. Capturing a fellow Manhattan music student as his wife, pursued their musical bent during the MIT years. addition to his isotope work, taught at the New England Conservatory of Music and wrote his first two musicals. the years that followed, the Roberts, their research and their music moved from MIT to the State University of Iowa, to the University of Rochester, to the Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, and to Fermilab 1967. 's Overture for the Dedication of a Nuclear Reactor, was performed by the Rochester Philharmonic. At the University of Chicago he also became interested computer-produced music. Recently, Dr. Roberts has been involved another piece of unusual research, this time a study of the possibility of using the ocean as a giant detector of neutrinos. He told a Fermilab seminar recently that devices located five kilometers down the ocean prove useful as detectors for neutrinos with energies ten to a hundred times higher than that of Fermilab neutrinos. Such a device might also detect supernova explosions distant galaxies up to ten million light-years away where the neutrinos originated. The possibility of locating such a detector off the coast of Hawaii be the subject of a workshop at the University of Hawaii next which he is leading. Meanwhile, as one of the stars of The Physical Revue performed by physicists and physicist's wives at the meeting of the American Physical Society New joshed and spoofed the profession what a New Times reviewer called a medley of staggering variety. He returned home time to help direct the Hyde Park group their performance of the and Sullivan operetta The Gondoliers. It was their 17th joint musical production. They both agree that the camaraderie and the excitement of producing a musical keep them coming back for just one more. Source: The Village Crier Vol. 8 No. 16, 22 Benjamin as head of Fermilab's Theoretical Physics Department, is frequently asked what the new discoveries high energy physics mean, where is the field headed, what is going to happen next? Dr. comments on these matters the following remarks prepared for a seminar for science writers at the recent meeting of the American Physical Society: There is exhilaration the air wherever particle physics is discussed these days, excitement about the rapid progress that has taken place the last few years. On the theoretical side, we have glimpsed the unity of all forces that act among particles; we have constructed a theoretical framework which to unify three forces nature the -called electromagnetic and weak forces, and perhaps even the strong force which is responsible for binding quarks to form hadrons The unified understanding of these forces nature demands that there be at least one more quark the charmed quark and perhaps other quarks and even heavier forms of electrons and muons, of the family of weakly interacting particles we call leptons. If there is a charmed quark, there ought to be charmed hadrons made up of charmed quarks and ordinary quarks. On the experimental side, there have been a number of indications that we might already have seen such particles. It is likely that we have discovered charmed particles and a heavy lepton, although profusion of the new events clouds our vision at the moment. When I explain to family and friends what I do and how we go about it, I often liken the process of physics research to solving a jigsaw puzzle As we put together pieces to form patches, a certain image of the overall picture emerges, but until the