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Among the notable discussants were Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...
From the Atomic Energy Commission to Hungarian-born Mathematician John Von Neumann, 52, pioneer developer of electronic brains and an AECommissioner, went a tax-free $50,000 for aiding the U.S. atomic energy program-second such award ever given (the first: to the late Nuclear Physicist Enrico Fermi...
Last week Russian Physicist Igor V. Kurchatov, speaking at Britain's Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, brought the subject of controlled fusion into the open. As early as 1950, said Kurchatov, Soviet scientists made theoretical studies about it. They started actual laboratory work in 1952, the year the U.S. achieved its first full-scale thermonuclear explosion...
...Rabi, Nobel-prizewinning physicist from Columbia, will chair the second session at which Frank, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, will speak on "Modern Science and the Basic Conceptions of our Present World View...
...record $3,028,000,000 on school construction-a jump of $175 million over 1954. ¶ Reporting on British industry's annual hunt for fresh university graduates, a writer in the London Times described the effect it is having on the mores of the new alumnus. Example: "One physicist I know has spent every weekend since he came down from the university voyaging up and down the country in first-class compartments to interviews, lodging at four-star hotels, dining with directors and drinking more than is good for him. He has no intention of taking...