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...fifth of the eight William James Lectures on Philosophy and Psychology, the physicist outlined the history of the new physics showing how it led to "An Unfamiliar Order." (This was the title of the lecture...
Continuing the history he had begun in his last lecture, Oppenheimer explained how the wave and particle aspects of light led the French physicist deBroglie to postulate that all matter could be represented mathematically by waves...
From this suggestion, the German physicist Schrodinger expanded the theory for these waves to a form where many of the paradoxes of the new physics fell out in a concise mathematical form...
Ideas into Gold. R-W's type of success can be found again and again in the industry. Among the new successes: ¶Varian Associates was founded in 1948 in Palo Alto, Calif, by Physicist Russell and Engineer Sigurd Varian as a company that had "nothing to offer but advanced technology and ideas." Today, as the biggest producer of the klystron tube, which guides Air Force missiles and irradiates Army food, Varian has grown from seven employees to 1,230, did an annual business of $11 million in 1956. Estimated 1957 sales: up another 27% to $14 million...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 will deliver the fifth of his lectures on "The Hope of Order" at Sanders Theater today at 4:30 p.m. The noted physicist, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, is the William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology...