Word: oldenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chairman Otto Oldenberg's warning that "only men who have a real interest in Physics and a good knowledge of Mathematics" should major in Physics cannot be repeated too often. It is a tough field and not for men "interested in science...
...Oldenberg's Physics 111, Introductions to Atomic Physics, is very good and relatively easy. He is a good, steady lecturer, not very inspiring, but solid...
...Otto Oldenberg, professor of Physics, said last night that the snow which fell in the Cambridge area this weekend quite likely was radio-active, but that there definitely was no cause for alarm. Before radiation could approach a dangerous level, it would have to be increased by an enormous factor, he said, commenting "Students needn't worry about taking precautions at this time...
According to Oldenberg, the reason that Geiger counters in the Rochester, N.Y. area were able to detect radiation after Saturday's snow is that the instruments are exceedingly sensitive. "If you approach a Geiger counter with a wrist-watch which has a luminous dial, it will sound like a thunder-storm," he pointed...
...Otto Oldenberg, professor of Physics, and chairman of the Department of Physics, said last night, "most members of the Physics Department regret strongly that the Federal Bureau of Investigation will have to clear so many researchers and students who are not concerned with secret work...