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Julie Tang of the History and Science Department focused on an individual rather than a broad field, producing a biography of the late Lawrence Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, George Kistiakowsky. Subtitling her work, "From Bomb Creator to Peace Crusader," Tang examined the background of the Manhattan atomic bomb project, in which Kistiakowsky played a major role. In the first biography of the prominent scientist, she used documents from the Harvard Archives; the Council for a Liveable World, which Kistiakowsky founded, and primary documents from his personal files. Tang met Kistiakowsky two years ago and received his permission to begin...
...President's address, more than a dozen people joined in the appeal. Among them: Hans Bethe and Isidor Rabi, winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics; Retired Admiral Noel Gayler, who was director of the National Security Agency from 1969 to 1972; Lee DuBridge, physicist and president emeritus of the California Institute of Technology; and former NASA senior Space Wizard Christopher Kraft. The petition is part of a major campaign by U.S. scientists to head off an extension of the arms race into space. Although Andropov's response noted that Moscow had presented a draft treaty...
Doubting the diaries' validity, Warburg Professor of Economics Emeritus John Kenneth Galbraith said in his capacity as a director of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey in 1945 he personally interviewed Albert Speer and other key Nazi officials...
...group of distinguished scholars discussed these issues from sociological economic and political science perspectives. John Kenneth Galbraith, Warburg Professor of Economics. Emeritus, delivered the introductory remarks for the conference...
...feel very, very critical of the current Israeli government and its treatment of the West Bank peoples." said Fairchild Professor of Law Emeritus John P. Dawson, who signed the petition...