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Philip J. Darlington, Jr. '34, curator of coleoptera at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Saunders MacLane, professor of Mathematics, and Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics, are among the nine Massachusetts teachers and artists to obtain grants for work in their fields...
Investigation of hydro-dynamics in various European centers will occupy the time of Professor Birkhoff, who served during the war as a consultant at the Aberdeen Proving Ground and as a technical representative with the Office of Scientific Research and Development...
Lars V. Ahlfors (Mathematics), Paul D. Bartlett (Chemistry), Marland P. Billings '23 (Geology), Francis Birch '24 (Geology). Garrett Birkhoff '32 (Mathematics), Lemuel R. Cleveland (Biology), Carleton S. Coon '25 (Anthropology), Frederick B. Deknatel (Fine Arts), Rupert Emerson '21 (Government), Merle Fainsod (Government), Edwin Frickey (Economics), Mason Hammond '25 (Greek and Latin, History), Michael Karpovich (History), Donald C. McKay (History), Saunders MacLane (Mathematics), Arthur T. Merritt (Music), Jean-Joseph Seznee (Romance Languages and Literatures), Jabez C. Street (Physics), Kenneth V. Thimann (Biology), Bartlett J. Whiting '25 (English), John D. Wild (Philosophy), Donald C. Williams (Philosophy), and E. Bright Wilson, Jr. (Chemistry...
What's needed, said Señor Erro, is a better theory of space. He proposed to substitute a theory developed by the late Dr. George D. Birkhoff of Harvard. Applied to the runaway galaxies, the Birkhoff idea would make the universe act its age. It would also reduce the universe's galaxy population to a mere eleven billion. "Birkhoff space" is flat, not curved. But laymen who imagine that that might make it easier to understand should be warned that it is both "flat and four-dimensional...
...spring of 1939, when the late George D. Birkhoff '04, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, had been appointed exchange professor to France, Professor Ferguson succeeded to Professor Birkhoff's position as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; and it is said that Professor Ferguson groomed as his successor Paul H. Buck, present dean...