Word: nobelity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reduce the scientists' mysterious, often mystical communications to human equations. Fortunately, Caltech is no mere high-I.Q. trade school. It has a student body capable of perpetrating the most ingenious and energetic pranks since Frank Merriwell pitched his upshoot for Yale. And its facultymen, including Nobel laureates, cut capers and figure eights at the Pasadena ice-skating rink, whiz about the campus in sports cars at velocities somewhat under the speed of sound, raise goldfish, beat out lowdown boogie on a piano or saw a 'cello in a community string quartet. One eminent theoretical physicist turned...
...Archimedes. The kind of science that DuBridge and Caltech stand for is as old as Archimedes, but for the U.S., it has come into its own only within the last generation. It was not until 1907 that an American scientist (Physicist Albert A. Michelson) won the Nobel Prize. It was not until 16 years later that DuBridge's great predecessor, Robert A. Millikan, became the second American to win one in physics. Since then, U.S. science has accumulated...
...approach, nor has it ever ceased to make fundamental principles the entire content and purpose of its education. As a result, it occupies a special place in the esteem of scientists and engineers. Though it may have rivals, it has no superior anywhere in the world. "Other places," says Nobel Laureate Isidor Rabi of Columbia University, "have good people. But at Caltech, they are all good...
Addressing the panels will be Dean Bundy, Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Dean Van Vleck, and Nobel Prize-winners John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and Thomas H. Weller, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Tropical Public Health. Several other faculty members and professional men will also participate...
...Washington, meanwhile, the nation's top polio experts met with U.S. Surgeon General Leonard A. Scheele to weigh the crisis. Among them were Dr. Salk, Dr. Thomas Francis Jr., who had tabulated last year's tests, and Dr. John Enders, Nobel Prizewinner whose discoveries had made the vaccine possible. After two days, the group told the country...