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...third, less happy, opinion of retirement is voiced by Percy W. Bridgman, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus. "You'll hear many different views on retirement," he says, "I don't like it." The physicist, who won the Nobel Prize in 1946, has been restless since his retirement because he has not been able to continue doing independent scientific research...
During the 22 years since Conant's original proposal, funds for eight such unrestricted chairs as he envisaged have been donated. The newest chair, the Loeb University Professorship, is as yet unfilled. The retirements of Nobel prize physicist P. W. Bridgman '04 and of lawyer Zechariah Chafee, Jr. leaves two more chairs vacant. Holding the five remaining chairs are theologian Paul Tillich, economist Sumner H. Slichter, Middle East authority Sir Hamilton A.R. Gibb, classicist Werner W. Jaeger, and language expert I.A. Richards
Away from the noise of the House Party weekend, over 300 scientists and humanists gathered in the Faculty Club and Burr Hall to honor P.W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Emeritus, and Philipp Frank, former lecturer in Physics, both eminent philosophers of science...
...visitors, attending a conference called "Science and the Modern World View--Toward a Common Understanding of the Sciences and the Humanities," left no doubt that they had come to honor Bridgman and Frank when the two men received standing ovations after their speeches in Burr Hall...
Besides Frank and Bridgman, speakers were Giogio de Santillana and Henry Guerlac, science historians; Harcourt Brown of M.I.T.; J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study; Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology; Charles Morris of the University of Chicago; and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English...