Word: gottingen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They have brought together Lichtenberg's observations and witticisms written over a period covering roughly 35 years of his life, from 1764 to 1799. During most of this period, Lichtenberg resided at Gottingen University, as a professor of mathematics and astronomy. Only Kant stayed at home longer than Lichtenberg; both men being somewhat alike in their appreciation of the virtues of the middle-class life. Lichtenberg, however, was no timid professor. One of the most appealing things about him is his interest and enthusiasm over the minor occurrences in his life. A simple rain storm was as apt to inspire...
Like all young Hungarian scientists in those days. Teller took his Ph.D. in Germany (University of Leipzig). When Hitler took power in 1933, Teller was at Gottingen, pursuing research in the molecular structure of matter. With the anti-Semitism that darkened his childhood raging about him again, he eagerly grabbed at a British rescue mission's offer of a lecturer's post at London University. Two years later he moved on to the U.S. to take up a physics professor's duties at the District of Columbia's George Washington University...
...Manhattan's Ethical Culture School he completed a year's chemistry course in six weeks-"and then I fell in love with physics because of the sweep of its laws, I suppose. In physics you get glimpses of such harmony and order!" After his Ph.D. (from Gottingen University, Germany) at 23, he taught physics, ranged into relativity, quantum theory, cosmic rays and nucleonics. In 1954 his security clearance was revoked after an airing of past Communist associations and his anti-H-bomb campaign as chairman of the General Advisory Committee to the AEC. Oppenheimer moved full-time...
...months working at the Scrollery, hopes to go back soon, as will Catholic University's Msgr. Patrick W. Skehan and young (26) British Scholar John Strugnell, a Presbyterian. The atmosphere at the Scrollery is probably unique. Says Lutheran Claus-Hunno Hunzinger, of Germany's University of Gottingen: "Every now and then one of us here will discover something new, and will cry out, and everyone will crowd around to discuss and suggest. It's the only situation I know in the study of the humanities where scholars are working in the same field at such close quarters...
...urbane, affable man who reads everything from Rabelais to Runyon, listens to everything from Bach to Berlin, gets along equally well with scholars, bankers, farmers and legislators. The son of a physician, he graduated from K.U. in 1936, and after time out for a year of studying physiology at Gottingen, Germany, finally got his M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was top man in his class. By the time he returned to his home town, he had been around enough to be sure of one thing: the Midwest was losing far too many good men to the richer...