Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gentle, affable, pink-eyebrowed Oswald Veblen (nephew of the late great economist-sociologist Thorstein Bunde Veblen) is doing a war job for the Government, having temporarily ceased working on spinors. Asked for a simple, lay definition of spinors, the mathematician shrugged and smiled. He has left behind topology, which he defines simply as "the theory of the properties of a body which are unchanged when you make any continuous deformation...
...Hungarian Mathematician John von Neumann is in tandem with Princeton's Economist Oskar ("Business Cycles") Morgenstern. They will produce an 800-page mathematician's-eye view of economic phenomena...
...Murray Edes, the mighty mathematician from Maine, holds the distinction of being the first man in the unit to become a father while in residence at Harvard. He reports an 7-pound son. Cigars are called for, Brother Edes. (Note: I haven't forgotten that 5-cent stogie you gave me, but I mean cigars...
...leading method was to import topflight European refugee mathematicians. Of 131 now here, the Foundation brought in 28. The refugees include 16 from Germany's famous Göttingen Mathematical Institute-some ousted Jews, others disgusted "Aryans." Many are "pure" scientists now in the applied field, training students of ballistics, aerodynamics. Three of the Mathematician refugees (including Department Head Richard Courant) are at N.Y.U., two are at Brown, others at Harvard, Chicago, Wisconsin, M.I.T., the New School for Social Research and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton...
...Erwin Schrödinger, as his lecture title suggests, has also attempted to fit life into his equations, he has gone beyond the ambitions of any other mathematician. In that case, it is small wonder that he fascinates the imaginative Irish...