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After graduating summa cum laude, Greene won a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, where he received his doctorate. Since then, he has taught at Cornell University, where he is currently a joint professor of physics and mathematics. Additionally, he bears the title of co-director of the Institute for Strings, Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics at Columbia University...
...very expensive, with a low probability of success and very little real scientific value. The same goes for the International Space Station and the Star Wars missile-defense program. It's time we demand real results and use common sense to control reckless, wasteful, political-payoff spending. Truman Hunter Oxford...
...very expensive, with a low probability of success and very little real scientific value. The same goes for the International Space Station and the Star Wars missile-defense program. It's time we demand real results and use common sense to control reckless, wasteful, political-payoff spending. Truman Hunter Oxford, Ohio...
DIED. ALAN BULLOCK, 89, Oxford historian and author of the first major postwar biography of Adolf Hitler; in Oxfordshire, England. Soon after World War II, he began an examination of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials, and in 1952 he published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny. Unlike some later biographies, Bullock's book, which sold some 3 million copies, portrayed Hitler as pathologically evil but lacking in ideological convictions...
...DIED. ALAN BULLOCK, 89, historian who wrote the 1952 best-selling biography Hitler: A Study in Tyranny; in Oxfordshire, England. Bullock and fellow Oxford historians A.J.P. Taylor and Hugh Trevor-Roper formed a triumvirate of gifted scholars whose efforts to understand the turmoil of the 20th century widely influenced modern thought. After spending World War II as a BBC correspondent, Bullock produced his Hitler biography from a detailed review of the minutes of the Nuremberg trials. He was modest about his talents. "I couldn't write great literature," he said, "but I could do a workmanlike job as a historian...