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Researchers copy
material changes
in superconductor
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uni
versity of California scientists say
they have duplicated a break
through superconductor material
discovered earlier this year and hope
to refine a second compound that
could do even better.
If the first compound made by the
team of researchers from Berkeley
and the affiliated Lawrence Berke
ley Laboratory can be perfected for
actual use, it could offer substantial
savings for such uses as long-dis
tance electricity transmission and the
“super collider” atom smasher envi
sioned by the Reagan administra
tion.
The scientists, led by physicist
Marvin Cohen, say they made an yt
trium-barium-copper-oxygen com
pound that begins to function as a
superconductor at temperatures as
warm as 283 degrees below zero
Fahrenheit, matching the break
through announced earlier by Uni
versity of Houston physicist Paul
C.W. Chu.
Superconductivity usually is de
fined by two crucial tests: disappear
ance of all electrical resistance and
the sudden expulsion of magnetic
flux.
Most superconductors require re-
frigation to close to absolute zero,
minus 460 degrees Fahrenheit, and
that requires expensive and hard-to-
handle liquid helium. Chu’s discov
ery was the first material that could
become superconducting at temper
atures produced by easily made liq
uid nitrogen, 10 times cheaper than
liquid helium.
While working with the material,
Cohen said researchers have seen
fluctuations suggesting it began to
function as a superconductor at tem-
E eratures as high as 40 degrees be-
>w zero.
“But we can’t stabilize it. It’s not
reproducible,” he said Tuesday,
countering published accounts that
his team had invented a new and
much improved superconductor.
However, he said researchers hope
that superconductivity eventually
can be achieved with their second
compound. The Berkeley research
ers are not disclosing the composi
tion of that material while their pat
ent application is pending.
Physicists can not completely ex
plain superconductivity. They de
scribe it generally as a phenomenon
where low temperature dampens
molecular and atomic movement
and electrons traveling in pairs can
pass through certain materials vir
tually without resistance.
Superconductors could be used
for purposes ranging from carrying
an electrical current almost indefi
nitely to making for more efficient
operation of electrical devices. Other
potential applications include in
creasing the power of computers, re
placing many uses of X-rays with
magnetic imaging machines and
powering high-speed trains cush
ioned on magnetic fields above their
tracks.
Actor Danny Kaye, 74,
dies of heart failure
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Come
dian Danny Kaye, who enthralled
adults and youngsters alike with
tongue-twisting patter in such films
as “Hans Christian Andersen” and
“The Court Jester,” then became an
advocate for the world’s children,
died Tuesday at the age of 74.
The red-haired star, who worked
his way up from busboy to Broad
way, TV and the movies and inter
national honors, died of heart fail
ure brought on by complications of
internal bleeding and hepatitis, pub
licist Warren Cowan said.
His wife of 46 years, Sylvia, and
daughter Dena were at his bedside at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center when
he died at 3:58 a.in.
Kaye, who also starred in such
film classics as “White Christmas”
and “The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty,” was hospitalized Sunday and
had been in extremely critical condi
tion, hospital spokesman Ron Wise
said.
Dr. Charles Kivowitz, his physi
cian, said Kaye contracted hepatitis,
an inflammation of the liver, from a
blood transfusion during heart sur
gery in February 1983.
President Reagan said the come
dian “could light up a room by just
smiling.”
“A comedian, actor, singer and
conductor, Danny Kaye delighted
millions the world over with his spe
cial talent for making us laugh,”
Reagan said. “Children, especially,
felt his warmth and humanity and
he enjoyed a special bond with his
young audiences.”
Kaye’s title as official permanent
ambassador-at-large for the United
Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF,
earned him the title of ambassador
to the world’s children.
U.N. Secretary-General Javier
Perez de Cuellar said, “He was truly
a champion for children in every
continent.”
Kaye said after visiting refugee
camps in India in 1971, “While UNI
CEF gives them food and medicines,
I make them laugh.”
The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences presented Kaye
with a special Oscar in 1954 and the
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
in 1982 for his charitable works, es
pecially with UNICEF. He also re
ceived a special Tony award in 1953
and Emmy awards for “The Danny
Kaye Show” in 1964 and best chil
dren’s television special in 1975.
Queen Margreth of Denmark
knighted Kaye in 1983 for his por
trayal of Hans Christian Andersen
in the 1952 musical film.
Earlier that year, Kaye was
awarded the 22nd annual Gold
Medal of the USO. He had enter
tained U.S. servicemen in Korea,
Vietnam and World War II.
Although Kaye couldn’t read mu
sic, he conducted symphonies all
over the world to benefit children
and musicians’ pension funds. He
had a unique touch, like using a
flyswatter to lead the New York Phil
harmonic in a 1981 performance of
“Flight of the Bumble Bee.”
Composer-conductor Leonard
Bernstein said, “Danny’s death has
diminished grievously the American
image the whole world loved —
warm, frank, lovable, irreverent,
funny, kind and generous.”
There will be no funeral. In lieu
of flowers the family asked that con
tributions be made to UNICEF.
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