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Today Aydelotte's recently-appointed successor, atomic physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer '26, heads up an endeavor equipped with its own comfortable $8,000,000 building, the gift of founders Louis Bamberger and Mrs. Felix Fuld of Newark department-store millions. Professional chambers range from twice to four times the dimensions of those enjoyed at most wealthy universities. Archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld got a sunken floor to admit outsize cases for Persian treasures. Paleograplier Elias Avery Lowe won additional windows to help him avert eyestrain while deciphering ancient texts. It was not like this under the tenure of first director Abraham Flexner...
...Secret of Matter. Nobel Physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence, father of cyclotrons, told of the feats of his latest (4,000 ton) baby. The most important: it had uncovered evidence that might explain the mysterious "binding force" which keeps all matter from flying apart...
...experiment station. It was the first U.S. school to provide a post-graduate course for the Ph.D. degree. Then crusty old Elias Loomis pioneered in devising the basis for modern weather maps and Bertram Boltwood discovered ionium. Sheffield's most famous teacher: Josiah Willard Gibbs, the top mathematical physicist of his day, who laid down the laws which form the basis for modern thermodynamics...
...would be a natural for the lean, dedicated young atomic scientist. Dorothy McGuire would be the girl who cures him of a wartime neurosis and ultimately wins his love; Walter Huston her fabulously wealthy father with entry into every embassy in Europe; and, possibly, Sidney Greenstreet as a Nazi physicist who swipes a valuable discovery from the scientist...
...believe the atom bomb Is a good weapon," concluded Physicist Sir Charles Darwin (grandson of the original), after some thought. His feeling about it: too inconvenient against scattered troops-and nobody would use the thing anyway, for fear of getting one back...