Word: georgis
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...meeting, Summers also named this year’s new Harvard College Professors. The new recipients of the title—the most distinguished a professor can attain at the College—are Reid Professor of English and American Literature Philip J. Fisher, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics Howard Georgi, Professor of Psychology Daniel T. Gilbert, Professor of Economics Caroline M. Hoxby, Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Lino Pertile, and Herchel Smith Professor of Computer Science Margo I. Seltzer...
...took the Red Army just ten days to surround Berlin, Marshal Georgi Zhukov encircling it from the north and Marshal Ivan Konev from the south. When the ring was complete on April 25, the Soviets arrayed a fearful multitude of weapons--6,000 tanks, 42,000 guns--and began bombarding the city. In the central area around the Chancellery and the bunker, around the Reichstag and the opera and the university, the shells landed at the rate of one every five seconds. The barrage went on all day and then all the next...
...Although Georgi is no longer head of the department, he still plays ambassador to physics buffs. Freshmen in his Physics 15b and 16 classes turn to him instead of their academic advisers. As Head Tutor, he’s turned Leverett House into the de facto center for physics outside of Jefferson Hall. Every Wednesday, students converge on the dining hall for Physics Night, seeking help from each other and the man himself...
It’s 11 a.m., and the Physics 15b lecture is winding down. In last night’s outfit, Georgi leans against the wall, waiting. Science Center D is silent as students send in their answers to a multiple choice question via remote controls. The answers tally up on screen. “Did that make sense?” he asks. “You’re quiet!” They quickly murmur perfunctory yeses...
...female students, drawn from chemistry to computer science, met for the first time on Tuesday. The Working Group will submit proposals by the end of May, says Mariangela Lisanti ’05, co-chair of the Task Force and president of Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe (WISHR). Georgi wants to concentrate on upping student advising resources, strengthening training for teaching fellows and faculty and, most importantly, increasing opportunities for undergraduate research...