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Kenneth G. Wilson ’56 was part of the generation of scientists who revolutionized physics in the 1970s and confirmed the quantum theories of physicists from the early 20th century including Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein.Wilson won the 1982 Nobel Prize in physics for his development of the Renormalization Group (RG) into a central tool in physics.Wilson’s father, E. Bright Wilson Jr. was a professor of chemistry at Harvard. As an undergraduate, Wilson concentrated in mathematics, though he also studied physics. He won the prestigious Putnam fellowship, awarded to high scorers on a national...
...stop and when to turn. Brown is fun to watch. He is trim, constantly in motion, his brown eyes still piercing and just a touch sad. Compared with almost any other politician, he's a riot to talk to, a one-man romp through everyone from St. Paul to Albert Camus. Jane Brunner, a city councilwoman who didn't vote for the mayor but thinks he has done a good job, says that when she goes into his office, she is never certain whether she is going to be in there for two minutes or two hours...
...Philippines Opus Dei seems to combine extreme navel gazing with self-loathing. It also seems preoccupied with gaining power over others and amassing wealth. Just the description of founder Josemaría Escrivá's enthusiastic self-flagellation was enough to turn me off. Doris Wrench Eisler St. Albert, Canada I was an Opus Dei member in central America during the '80s. In those chaotic times, I was attracted to the idea of sanctifying daily work and giving my life more transcendental value without sacrificing my dedication to studying medicine. With time, I came to realize that those noble goals...
...From its beginnings on cave walls at least 20,000 years ago, Aboriginal art has continually shifted shape like the rainbow serpent Ngalyod, the culture's enduring creation figure: from the X-ray styles of ancient Arnhem Land to colonial-era paintings on bark; from Albert Namatjira's mid-century watercolors at Hermannsburg to the contemporary cultural renaissance that is the Western Desert Art Movement, and its fertile offspring. Recently described by former Aboriginal Affairs Minister Amanda Vanstone as "Australia's greatest cultural treasure," it is an industry conservatively worth $A200 million a year (see following story). But its complexity...
...small but often hilarious tradition of comedies in which the bourgeoisie get their comeuppance while navigating large vehicles along narrow and twisted roads. Anyone here remember Lucy and Desi in The Long, Long Trailer, way back in 1954? No? That?s too bad. But surely you recall Albert Brooks?s best movie, Lost in America (1991). Our movies - especially the supposedly funny ones - are so relentlessly middle class in outlook, so often concentrated on the romantic anguish of people who are all lifestyle yet in some ways life-deprived. It is good - even sort of soul satisfying - to see them...