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RE: letter from Albert Einstein [was A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request]
My point was that a large number of names do not necessary result in actions
being taking. Signatures from 17,000 may not have as much influence as a
congressional committee of 12.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: Franta, Jaroslav [mailto:frantaj@aecl.ca]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2001 8:37 AM
To: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS); Radsafe (E-mail)
Subject: RE: letter from Albert Einstein [was A response to Jerry Cohen's
reasonable request]
As I recall from reading Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb,
Einstein's letter actually didn't do anything -- there was a long delay
between its delivery and the start of the Manhattan Project.
Forget what it was exactly that eventually got it going -- perhaps someone
else can recall the details -- wasn't it that famous calculation by
physicists in Britain ?
Thanks,
Jaro
-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [mailto:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday July 25, 2001 4:57 PM
To: xrftom; dkosloff1
Cc: Dukelow, James S Jr; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request
And it took a letter from Albert Einstein to impress President Roosevelt to
start the Manhattan Project.
-- John
John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
3050 Traymore Lane
Bowie, MD 20715-2024
E-mail: jenday1@email.msn.com (H)
-----Original Message-----
From: xrftom [mailto:tom@XRFCorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:29 PM
To: dkosloff1
Cc: Dukelow, James S Jr; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request
SNIP
> I wasn't the one who raised the issue of 17,000+ scientists subscribing
> to the dissident position on global warming. I merely pointed out that
> there is no way of telling which or how many of the non-fraudulent
> signatories of the petition are actually scientists.
> SNIP
17,000 scientists signing a petition on a planet with approximately 10,000
scientific journals just don't seem all that impressive.
Tom Hazlett
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