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Ride, 32, a physicist by training from Encino, Calif., seemed almost born to the Brotherhood of the Right Stuff. She said little as the shuttle smoothly climbed skyward, except to take issue kiddingly with Bob Crippen, 45, Challenger's veteran commander, who was making his second shuttle flight. Said she: "He keeps saying there's nothing exciting happening. I'm not sure I'd go along with that...
Victor F. Weisskopf, physicist, Institute Professor Emeritus...
Victor F. Weisskopf, a theoretical physicist who worked on the team that built the first atomic bomb during World War II, and E. Bright Wilson, Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will also receive honorary degrees, at the culmination of this morning's portion of Harvard's 332nd Commencement exercises...
Victor F. Weisskopf once said "Human existence is based upon two pillars: Compassion and knowledge. Compassion without knowledge is ineffective; knowledge without compassion is inhuman." Throughout his career as a prominent theoretical nuclear physicist, Weisskopf has sought to balance the exploding field of scientific knowledge with a basic sense of humanity...
Wilson's son, Cornell physicist Kenneth G. Wilson '56, in February delivered the first of an annual lecture series at Harvard he established in honor of his father. The younger Wilson received a 1982 Nobel Prize and was awarded a Harvard honorary degree...