Wednesday, December 2, 2009
[1763 - Touro Synagogue is dedicated at Newport, Rhode]
[1859 - Georges Seurat, painter, born in Paris]
[1863 - Charles Ringling (Rungeling), circus
producer, born near Pikes Peak, Iowa]
[1902 - Howard Koch, screenwriter, born
in New York City]
[1914 - Adolph Green, Tony Award-winning songwriter, lyricist, playwright, born in the Bronx]
[1914 - Herman 'Ray' Walston, Emmy Award-winning actor, born in New Orleans]
[1922 - Leo Vincent Gordon, actor, born in Brooklyn]
[1923 - Maria Callas (Calogeropoulous), opera diva (soprano), born in New York City]
[1942 - Atomic Age begins under stands of University of Chicago Stagg Field]
Critical Mass
In 1942 the critical mass phenomenon was demonstrated by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Enrico Fermi, who achieved the first sustained atomic chain reaction in a tent on a squash court under the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago. It is but a small step to understand how this physical concept applies in other disciplines and human endeavors, but it surely does.
William's Whimsical Words:
When you look for it, you see it at work everywhere.
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