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...Percy Bridgman '04, professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and George Wald, professor of Biology, will attempt to answer this question at 7:30 p.m. tonight in the Littauer Auditorium. The forum will start the spring half of the 1948-49 lecture series of the Student's Association for Natural and Social Sciences...
...Bridgman has maintained in the past that science is not a special method but a certain field of inquiry...
Moderator Bart J. Bok, professor of Astronomy, spoke in place of Professor Bridgman, whose illness kept him away...
...Boston, Correspondent Jeff Wylie talked to Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman and other Harvard professors who had taught Oppenheimer there. One thing Wylie noticed was that the 1926 class album has nothing more to say about Oppenheimer at Harvard than "in college, three years as undergraduate...
...before you formulated the question.") Gradually and painfully, coached by colleagues and profiting by errors, Oppenheimer learned to put a checkrein on his galloping mind, to raise his voice, and to save, his sarcasms for showoffs and frauds.* In time, Cal and CalTech realized that Oppenheimer (like Whitehead and Bridgman) was "a man to whom you could be an apprentice." By 1939, "Oppie" (as his apprentices called him) had 25 full-time graduate students working under him. In the spring, when he headed south from Berkeley for the CalTech term, many of his students went with him. Driving down...