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President Eisenhower last week named John Von Neumann, 50, a cheerful, portly professor with a passion for cookies and ionospheric mathematical problems, to be a member of the Atomic Energy Commission for a five-year term. Mathematician Von Neumann,* a Budapest-born naturalized American, has been a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study for 21 years, and is a close friend of Drs. Albert Einstein and J. Robert Oppenheimer. He and his unique theories and formulas are the talk of economists and mathematicians the world over...
...Neumann is one of the masterminds behind many electronic brains that extrapolate election figures, coordinate weather data, and work out staggering mathematical problems far beyond the scope of human brain power (Univac, Eniac, etc.). In 1951 he designed an electronic calculator, Maniac (mathematical analyzer, numerical integrator and computer), that in six months (instead of several lifetimes) made the H-bomb calculations derived from the equations of his fellow Hungarian, Dr. Edward Teller...
...Peter G. Neumann: Glee Club; House Athletics; Winthrop House Music Society...
...charge of this project is John vou Neumann, an Hungarian mathematician who joined the Institute in 1933. Von Neumann is only one of the many members who have come to the Institute from Europe or Asia. This year an estimated one-half of the eighty-one members are from outside the U. S. The requirement of a Doctor's degree is waived in the case of Europeans if they have their country's approximate equivalent...
...impossible to judge the progress of members at the Institute since the administration loads professors with neither restrictions nor requirements. Sometimes the product, as in the case of Eliot's play or von Neumann's calculator, is proof of time well-spent. In general, the permanent members can only trust their judgment to select men who will take full advantage of Institute facilities. Sojourns from the town of Princeton are encouraged, however, and Professor Miller has accepted several speaking engagements for the year, including a recent address on Yale's Jonathan Edwards...