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...year 15 to 20 college graduates and doctors of medicine from all over the world will receive $3,500 fellowships, will spend a minimum of three years working either for a Ph.D. or a doctorate of medical science. The university will not encourage early specialization, but, says President Detlev Bronk, "as the students' interests develop, they will be led by their curiosity and urged by the faculty to spend not less than twelve months in study under leading scholars in two or three other universities anywhere in the world. We will defray the expenses...
...Added Bronk: "In the spirit of research we will endeavor to preserve a flexible educational pattern and an adventurous environment for our students. We agree with Abraham Flexner, the great educator . . . 'As a democracy needs intellectual distinction, it would be fatal to exhibit too timorous a spirit...
...with 30 chainsmoking technicians to set up their exhibits and 150 other members in their delegation. The British, highly skilled in atomics, flooded down from London. Besides U.S. Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss and four other chief delegates (Dr. Libby. Nobel Prizewinner I. I. Rabi of Columbia, Detlev Bronk, president of the National Academy of Sciences, and Dr. Shields Warren, director of the Cancer Research Institute at the New England Deaconess Hospital), the U.S. sent a Government delegation of 319 scientists and technicians, plus an unofficial drove of scientists, business men and industrialists...
...Detlev Bronk of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research . . Sc.D...
After 35 years at Johns Hopkins University, Vice President Lowell J. Reed, 67, cleaned out his desk, said goodbye all around, and last June retired to his New Hampshire farm. But last week, less than a month after President Detlev Bronk resigned to become head of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (TIME, July 6), the Hopkins trustees made a surprise announcement. The man they wanted for Bronk's successor: Lowell Reed...