Word: emeritus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than 300 people attended the afternoon service at Memorial Church in honor of the Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, who died on December 8 at age 82 after a lengthy bout with cancer...
...cared for him because he cared so deeply for all of us" Jon Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg professor of Economics Emeritus, said in his memorial remarks. "As a community, we will never quite repair or replace our loss...
Richards professor of Chemistry Emeritus E. Bright Wilson described the man who spent nearly 50 years at Harvard as animated and mischievous, in contrast to his deep serious involvement in science and politics...
...able to ask him a few fairly intelligent questions. I also wanted to seek his advice on how I could help others to learn about the nuclear arms issue. By this time I had learned a little more about him. I knew that he was a professor of chemistry emeritus. He had helped to build the atom bomb and in 1959 became the science adviser to President Eisenhower. Later he left Washington, becoming active in the arms control movement and now was devoting full time to his duties as chairman of the Council for a Livable World...
GEORGE B KISTIAKOWSKY, the Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus who died last week at 82, never had any doubts about the apocalyptic potential of nuclear weapons. weapons that he played a key role in designing at the U.S. Government's Los Alamos laboratory during World...