Philosophy
One of the happiest girls in the world is Joyce Myron, 18-year-old college student of Drexel Institute of Technology. She is known across America for her triumphs on TV's "$64,000 Question," where she brilliantly answered questions about the new science of atomic energy. And she has interested millions in the exciting promise of the peaceful atom. This picture shows Joyce at the scene of one of her TV appearances, an atomic-electric power plant near San Francisco—the first completed among several now being planned and built by electric companies and equipment manufacturers. With Joyce are engineers and scientists who run the plant and the nearby atomic laboratory. Most are only a few years older than Joyce—members of the new generation that is unlocking door after door to reveal the secrets of atomic energy and harness them to useful purposes. We salute Joyce Myron and the other young atomic scientists and engineers. Theirs is the privilege of putting the atom to work—for power, for healing, and for other and still unknown services to mankind.
I wonder what happened to her.
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Philosophy
Joyce Myron...what happened to her?
Joyce Myron photographed in front of the California atomic-electric power plant being built by Pacific Gas & Electric Company and General Electric. With her are some of the men who operate the plant and the G-E Vallecitos Atomic Laboratory, site of the plant.
Full page ad sponsored by America's Independent Electric Light and Power Companies. November 18th, 1957
LIFE
LIFE
The girl, the men, and the atom
One of the happiest girls in the world is Joyce Myron, 18-year-old college student of Drexel Institute of Technology. She is known across America for her triumphs on TV's "$64,000 Question," where she brilliantly answered questions about the new science of atomic energy. And she has interested millions in the exciting promise of the peaceful atom. This picture shows Joyce at the scene of one of her TV appearances, an atomic-electric power plant near San Francisco—the first completed among several now being planned and built by electric companies and equipment manufacturers. With Joyce are engineers and scientists who run the plant and the nearby atomic laboratory. Most are only a few years older than Joyce—members of the new generation that is unlocking door after door to reveal the secrets of atomic energy and harness them to useful purposes. We salute Joyce Myron and the other young atomic scientists and engineers. Theirs is the privilege of putting the atom to work—for power, for healing, and for other and still unknown services to mankind.
America's Independent Electric Light and Power Companies
I wonder what happened to her.
Check out CONELRAD .
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"7 Public Domain Physics Comics Worth Reading" June 23rd, 2014 Physics Central The Golden Age of comic books stretched from the 1930s through the 1950s and overlapped with a time of unbridled optimism about the progress of science. People wanted to know...
- Chic Young's Dagwood Bumstead Does Some Science
"When Dagwood Bumstead Split the Atom" by Esther Inglis-Arkell May 19th, 2012 io9 It's not often that Chic Young, the newspaper cartoonist responsible for the exploits of Blondie's hapless husband, and General Leslie Groves, the military man...
- Electric Vehicles...i Think Not
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- Death Of An "atom Smasher"
"Historic Atom Smasher Reduced to Rubble and Revelry" by Alexis Madrigal July 8th, 2009 Wired Science BERKELEY, California — What was once the world's biggest atom smasher will soon be nothing more than a collection of old photos and the dust...
- "a Is For Atom"
Just six years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki we had begun the "atomic age" here represented by A Is for Atom in animated format and complete with sophomoric atomic physics. Have to start somewhere I guess. This 1953 film is a John Sutherland Productions...