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Gordon D. Kaufman will hold the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Professorship of Divinity, Ralph B. Potter Jr. was appointed professor of Social Ethics in the Divinity School, and George W. Mackey was elected the first holder of the new London T. Clay Professorship of Mathematics...
...Mackey, a member of the Harvard faculty since 1943, is known for his work on group representations and their relations to quantum theory. He published Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in 1963. He received the A.B. degree from Rice University and the Ph.D. from Harvard...
George W. Mackey, professor of Mathematics, foresaw these difficulties when government support of scientific research was just beginning. "Shortly after World War II, the government began to support summer research and travel expenses for conferences and visiting professors coming here," Mackey said in a recent interview. Mackey, one of the few Harvard mathematicians who has never accepted any regular government support, said that "even then the form under which support was given compromised, to me, the freedom and independence provided by the traditional academic approach to research...
...problem was that the government was being very liberal," Mackey said, "and so the restrictions that were inherent in a government-financed research system did not come to light until cost-sharing and effort-reporting were instituted in 1966. Up until then, not many could be persuaded to be concerned...
...Mackey, who chairs a special three-man committee of the American Mathematical Society which is attempting to get the effort-reporting requirement "romoved or changed," according to Mackey, is alone no longer. Very few people in the scientific community here are in favor of effort-reporting. At the very best it is considered to be a necessary evil...