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Percy Williams Bridgman, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and natural Philosophy, was named as the 1946 Nobel Prize Winner in the field f Physics by the Swedish Academy of Science in Stockholm yesterday...
...Bridgman was given the award as the result of his life-long studies "within the sphere of high pressure physics," and for his invention of an apparatus producing extremely high pressures...
Speakers at the anniversary will be David M. Little '18, secretary to the University; Percy W. Bridgman '04, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Roger L. Putnam '15, of Springfield, member of the Observatory Visiting Committee. Leon Campbell, instructor in Astronomy and Observatory staff member, will be toastmaster...
Placing emphasis on the United States position of leadership in this line of research, Professor Bridgman recommended that "the bomb be turned over to an international control group involving mutual trust among nations." He forecast the end of nationalities and a society in which nations must band together in the preservation of mankind...
Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, in summing up the discussion, reaffirmed Professor Bridgman's position, declaring that "the raw materials needed for the atomic bomb's manufacture are so widely distributed that control at the production stage rather than in the laboratory is absolutely necessary. It is either one world or no world at all," he concluded...