Oct 11 1973
From The Space Library
An estimated $2.8 million in laboratory equipment used to process lunar samples had been shipped from Johnson Space Center's Lunar Receiving Laboratory to the Atomic Energy Commission's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory in New Mexico, JSC announced. AEC would use the equipment-vacuum chambers and pumps, stainless steel pipes, air-tight processing cabinets, and electronic monitoring devices-to investigate the use of lasers to produce energy through controlled thermonuclear reactions. The Lunar Receiving Laboratory had closed in June after processing the last lunar samples from the Apollo pro-gram. All sample material had been transferred to the Lunar Sample Curatorial Facility at JSC. The laboratory equipment had been declared excess property. (JSC Release 73-135)
President Nixon announced he would add $115 million to the FY 1974 budget for energy research and development. The increase would raise total energy R&D funding for FY 1974 to about $1 billion, a 37% in-crease over FY 1973. He said, "Our hopes for advancing research and development also rest upon my proposed legislation to create a Depart-ment of Energy and Natural Resources and an independent Energy Research and Development Administration." (PD, 10/15/73, 1239-40)
The 1973 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded in Stock-holm to three pioneers in ethology, the comparative study of behavior. Austrian-born Dr. Karl von Frisch, retired, and Dr. Konrad Lorenz of the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology, shared the $121 000 cash prize with Netherlands-born Dr. Nikolaas Tinbergen, professor of animal behavior at Oxford Univ. (NYT, 10/12/73, 1)
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