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Made to Order. Their technical reputations grew so fast that when the Government asked the late great Mathematician John Von Neumann to set up a committee to study the future development of strategic guided missiles, Ramo and Wooldridge were picked as members. The committee decided that the ICBM could be built, turned over its report to the Government which felt that it was too big a job for one company or for the Air Force to handle alone. What was needed was a unique setup-a new civilian technical group that could work under the Air Force and supervise...
...theory developed, and solutions suggested themselves. Breakthroughs followed in what now seems an extraordinarily short space of time. Early in 1954 a Strategic Missiles Evaluation Committee headed by the late great Mathematician John von Neumann developed and extended these breakthroughs. Von Neumann and his associates came out with a feasible technique for designing a lightweight hydrogen device which would indeed fit into the nose cone of an ICBM...
...last August, Mr. Gaposchkin has been photographing the southern stars at the Australian Common-wealth Observatory, where former Harvard professor Bart J. Bok will soon assume directorship. Gaposchkin will resume his activities at Harvard next fall. Assisting him in Australia is his 16-year-old son, already an avid mathematician and astronomer. The Gaposchkins have two other children, a son studying electrical engineering as Tufts and a daughter majoring in Slavic languages at Swarthmore...
Middle-sized, plumpish John von Neumann was a man people liked on sight. Those who barely knew him called him Johnny; he might have been a popular restaurateur or candy-shop proprietor. He was, instead, the greatest mathematician of his time. His ideas and personality had a profound effect on today's scientific...
Died. John von Neumann, 53, Hungarian-born mathematician, member since 1955 of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission; of cancer; in Washington, B.C. (see SCIENCE...