Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answer, crusty Viscount Cherwell, famed physicist and Churchill's chief scientific adviser during World War II, scathingly denounced the protesters as "hysterical people." Said Cherwell: "This sort of thing has become particularly obnoxious since universally respected figures such as the Pope and Dr. Schweitzer have been persuaded to intervene. How they can allow themselves to be taken in by the inaccurate propaganda of the friends of Russia is hard to understand." The facts are, said Cherwell, that "the number of gamma rays we get from the radioactive materials in the walls of our houses is 50 times greater than...
...order which man achieves in the study of himself through the coming years will be a partial order," J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 told a capacity Sanders Theatre audience in his final William James Lecture last Friday. The atomic physicist received a standing ovation at the conclusion of his talk...
...physicist brought his concluding statements to bear on the problem of the limits of knowledge, and declared that the only limit placed on what man knew was man's life span. He said, however, that we must realize and appreciate our own and others' ignorance, for it is impossible to ever accumulate any great amount of knowledge in a lifetime. "The recognition of the inherent necessity of ignorance is the beginning of a sort of wisdom," he said...
...Robert Oppenheimer '26 will conclude the William James Lectures for 1957 this afternoon at 4:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre. The atomic physicist has been discussing some of the more relevant examples from atomic physics and quantum theory in an approach to "A Hope of Order," which will be the title of his last lecture and has been the topic of the entire series...
During the first half of the lecture, the physicist rounded out his discussion of complementarity (the existence of two equally useful but mutually exclusive theories) and its usefulness in clarifying the problems that arise in the science...