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...Rockefeller Institute's Fritz Lipmann (1953 prize-discoverer of coenzyme A) cited a research group whose classified work in a fast-moving field became obsolete before it was permitted to be published. "Such instances damage the morale of the scientific worker." ¶Harvard's Percy W. Bridgman (1946 prize-physics of high pressures): "If I think that my colleague may be able to make some helpful suggestion, I can feel it only highly irrelevant that he may not have secured clearance by the FBI." ¶The University of California's Berkeley Chancellor Glenn T. Seaborg (1951 prize...
...blanket rule that has been the policy of the Corporation since Lowell. For the Corporation, this is just a practical financial measure that is completely impersonal. They can only afford to contribute a certain amount to scientific research and they prefer to give assistance to current professors. Bridgman himself has never lodged an official complaint as he feels "it doesn't put a man in a pleasant position to have to urge the value of his own contributions." But he feels that a more flexible retirement plan would not force a man to leave his work. Bridgman's high pressure...
...satisfied in his retirement. "The professor in the humanities or social sciences is lucky," says Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr. Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, Emeritus, "all he needs is a pencil, paper, and a study. Losing my study would be like losing my right arm." Professor Schelsinger, unlike Bridgman, retired at the earliest possible date in order to be able to do the work he has always wanted...
...having a laboratory in which to experiment, Bridgman has been forced to turn to his other interest, the Philosophy of Physics. He has just published a book, The Way Things Are, and has been writing for various scientific journals. He works in a study provided for him by the University, but he does not feel that he is doing the work he does best...
...last years of his active professorship, Bridgman taught very little--a graduate half-course once every two years--and spent most of his time in the laboratories. Thus retirement has abruptly cut him off from his usual way of life...