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...professionals gathered in Caltech's Dabney Hall in Pasadena were well qualified to speak on the subject. Among them: M.I.T.'s President James R. Killian Jr., Caltech's President Lee A. Du-Bridge, M.I.T.'s Dean (engineering) Carl Richard Soderberg, Caltech's Physicist and Mathematician Robert F. Bacher, M.I.T.'s Gordon S. Brown (electrical engineering). Almost without exception M.I.T. and Caltech freshmen are the scholastic cream skimmed off the top 10% of national high school enrollment. "It's the rare Caltech student whose IQ falls below 130," explained Psychologist Weir. "The average...
...There, library officials had already set up a lively exhibition commemorating the 2,000th year of Julius Caesar's death. Now, it seemed, Columbia was commemorating a year too soon. University classicists promptly split on what to do. Scottish Gilbert Highet ("I'm a classicist, not a mathematician") was for calling the whole thing off, but bearded Classicist Moses Hadas favored the exhibition. Meanwhile the university news office, citing the Columbia Encyclopedia, informed reporters that "because of poor time calculation in earlier times," even the birth of Christ "must be dated a little earlier, probably 4 B.C." Therefore...
Among other scientific acquisitions are: the first printed work on perfumes; an early study in anthropology, printed in 1642; mathematician John Taylor's "Thesaurarium Mathematicae," written in 1642; and a 20th century edition of the texts of the early French naturalist, Buffon, with drawings by Pablo Picasso...
...late 1953, Trevor Gardner, Assistant Air Secretary for Research and Development and onetime electronics manufacturer, was assigned to study the whole situation. He gathered a topflight military staff, and consulted civilian scientists of the highest caliber, one of whom was Mathematician John Von Neumann, now an Atomic Energy Commissioner...
Among the scientific professions listed are: chemist, design engineer draftsman, geologist, geophysicist, mathematician, microbiologist, physicist and physiologist...