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...such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...
...year study of 1,400 California schoolchildren with IQs past the threshold of genius (140-plus); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Palo Alto, Calif. Tester Terman's findings: his bright children grew up healthier, slightly wealthier and better employed than the average child, but the group contained "no mathematician of truly first rank, no university president . . . gives no promise of contributing any Aristotles, Newtons, Tolstoys ... In achieving eminence, much depends on chance...
Other men than Rossby noted this startling fact. Dr. Vladimir Zworykin, inventor of the iconoscope, the first effective television-camera tube, sold the idea to his Princeton neighbor, the great Mathematician John von Neumann. Teaming up with Rossby, who provided the meteorological knowledge, Von Neumann and his brilliant assistant Dr. Jule Charney devised ingenious mathematical tricks to shoehorn weather observations into computing machines...
Even if he had never ventured beyond his own field, Frank Loxley Griffin, 75, would still have enjoyed a reputation as a distinguished mathematician. But to little (650 students) Reed College in Portland, Ore., Griff has always been a great deal more than that. When he retired in 1952 after 41 years, the college thought it had lost not only a beloved teacher, but a man who as much as any had made Reed the lively and respected campus that...
...M.I.T. announced that it has reinstated Mathematician Dirk Struik to the rank of full professor. In 1951, when a Massachusetts grand jury indicted Struik for plotting the violent overthrow of the government, M.I.T. suspended him with full pay and without prejudice. Though the state later dropped its case, M.I.T. decided to carry on an investigation of its own. The gist of the faculty committee's findings: Struik has never made any secret of his Marxist views, but there is no proof that he has ever been a member of the Communist Party or that his beliefs have interfered with...