Word: philipp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even heard of Richter, though he is 42 years old and by his own account has been working in physics for 15 years. According to reports from Prague, Richter was a Sudetenland German who got his doctorate in 1935 from the German University of Prague. He studied under Professor Philipp G. Frank (now at Harvard), who remembers him vaguely as a so-so student. Beyond this, he left no trace in the records of science. To most physicists his claims sounded as suspicious as his credentials...
...write his two concertos for three pianos-a complicated, not to say cumbersome, kind of composition on the face of it. Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
...Philipp G. Frank, lecturer on Physics and Mathematics; Michael Karpovich, professor of History; and Jean-Joseph Seznec, Smith Professor of French and Spanish, will discuss "The Scholar and Society" in the third Eliot House Symposium in the Eliot Dining Hall at 8 p.m. tonight. The three faculty members will examine the scholar's social obligations to society...