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Last week at its annual meeting, the academy elected a new president. Retired after an unprecedented three terms was Physiologist Detlev W. Bronk, 64, who has run the academy since 1950. Chosen to take his place was 50-year-old Dr. Frederick Seitz, a dry-humored physicist from the University of Illinois, who has played a bright role in a new science: solid-state physics...
...Seitz and Princeton's Eugene P. Wigner devised a method for calculating the forces that bind atoms together in a metal, an application of new theory to solid-state physics. Later, Seitz wrote The Modern Theory of Solids, the first comprehensive survey of solid-state physics, and made significant contribution to the development of such solid-state devices as transistors...
Throughout much of his career (Stanford, Princeton, Rochester, Pennsylvania and Carnegie Tech as well as Illinois), Seitz has been an outspoken champion of scientists who devote their talents to national problems. In the midst of the loud soul-searching that followed President Truman's 1950 announcement that the U.S. would develop a hydrogen bomb, Seitz stood before the American Physical Society and laid it on the line for his anti-H-bomb colleagues. Said he: "Who among us will feel sinless if he has remained passively by while Western cul ture was being overwhelmed...
Kookie Pedigree. As the museum and Seitz's excellent commentary show, the assemblers have a distinguished, somewhat wood, spires, brush and rod plus a graceful fivesome of wheels by Ettore Colla. kookie, pedigree. One ancestor is Picasso, who in 1912 painted a cubist picture of ordinary objects, threw in the letters J O U (to indicate journal, and hence day-to-day experience), pasted on some oilcloth with a chair-cane pattern, and finally framed the whole thing with a piece of rope. Picasso was creating no ordinary still life: he arranged his painted objects just as the later...
...large extent, today's assemblers seem really to be using yesterday's revolution to stage a counterrevolution of their own. As Seitz puts it: "They once more demonstrate the necessity for artists to flee the current circle of approval while seeking recognition on,another level, to return again from abstraction to nature, to work with the materials of life rather than...