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...final consideration involved in the choice of fields centers around the opportunity which the small, isolated institute community can provide a scholar. The advantages which the mathematician and the theoretical physicist can derive from informal consultation and reflective study are manifold. The historian's need for this same community of scholarship, although not so great as that of the mathematician, is nevertheless considerable. Also, the fact that foundations and governments are rather reluctant to spend much money on historical projects made the initial Board of Trustees feel that the Institute might do a great service by making some...
...also honored a famed scientist last week: Physicist Niels Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
Born and educated in Copenhagen, Bohr went to work with Physicist Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester in 1912. Rutherford had shown that atoms have small nuclei around which electrons revolve like planets around miniature suns. In several ways the '"Rutherford model of the atom" did not work, but in 1913, when Bohr was 28, he applied to it the strange new concepts of the quantum theory, which bewildered most physicists then as they bewilder most laymen now. The atomic electrons, said unclassical Physicist Bohr, cannot revolve in any old orbit. They must stick to certain particular orbits...
...most authoritative voices to speak up about the danger of growing Soviet scientific superiority over the U.S. belongs to Budapest-born Nuclear Physicist Edward Teller. 49, associate director of the University of California's Radiation Laboratory and "the father of the H-bomb." Last week Teller's friends in the Pentagon were pointing glumly to his prediction in last April's Air Force magazine: "Ten years ago there was no question where the best scientists in the world could be found-here in the U.S. ... Ten years from now the best scientists in the world will...
...Physicists Without Physics. "The present age of specialization has gone an unbelievable distance. Not only are we developing physicists who know no chemistry, physiologists who know no biology, but we are beginning to get [the physicist] who does not know physics. He proceeds at once to the subtleties of quantum theory without a good fundamental knowledge of classical mechanics or classical optics, even though in these fields many of the very same problems which confront him in the latest specialty already have appeared in a simpler and more perspicacious form...