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More than 300 eminent scientists and humanists will gather here this weekend for a conference to honor the work of two of the University's scientists--P. W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor, emeritus, and Philipp Frank, biographer of Einstein...
...Sunday afternoon, Bridgman, Charles Morris, professor of Philosophy at Chicago, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will speak on "Prospects for a New Synthesis" under chairman Detlev W. Bronk, president for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research...
...name of Oppenheimer arose in response to the need for a University professor in the sciences. Since Percy W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor, Emeritus, retired, none of the University Professors has been a scientist. The physicist, who is next year's William James Lecturer in Philosophy and Psycholgy, has previously refused appointment as University Professor it was also learned...
Other signers of the letter, besides Edwin C. Kemble, chairman, Pound, treasurer, Ulich, Allport, and Rochow are: Kenneth T. Bainbridge, Francis Birch '24. Percy W. Bridgman '04, Harvey Brooks, Zechariah Chafee, Jr., John T. Edsall '23, William C. Green '11, Arthur N. Holcombe '66, Mark DeWelfe Howard '28, Howard M. Jones, L. Den Lect, Archived MacLeish, Edward M. Purcell, Alfred S. Romer, and J. Curry Street...
...Bridgman's career in the study of high pressures represents one of the few examples in physics of a "one-man" development of an important research field. He has published many original measurements of physical properties, including those of gases, liquids, and solids...