Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prince Louis de Broglie, Nobel Prize-winning physicist: "Maybe the entire universe . . . from atom to spiral nebulae, is nothing but a tiny speck of a much vaster reality...
...sometimes with his cheek to get his small bulb out where it could shine. As Cooper observes, "The immortal gift of Albert Woods was his capacity for answering [the question of how to be great] with a glorious hotheaded 'Somehow!' " In short, Author Cooper, himself a physicist hiding under a pseudonym, sets off a merry little stink bomb in the sacred precincts of High Science, as if to show that the laboratory atmosphere is not always filled with the ozone of pure disinterestedness...
These remarks preface this article every year, but their truth is reaffirmed with each freshman class. For unless the prospective physicist has full comprehension of all of his required mathematics courses, he will almost certainly find theoretical physics completely beyond his grasp...
...witnesses, in addition to Struik, listed M.I.T. professors Norman Levinson, mathematics; Lawrence B. Arguimbau, electrical engineering; A. M. Gelbart, Edwin Blaisdell, and Nathan Rosen, a physicist, believed to be in Israel...
...Harvard for his Ph.D., in 1946 joined the faculty of Princeton University. When Swarthmore found him, he was American Secretary to the Rhodes Trustees - a position he took over from Frank Aydelotte, Swarthmore's seventh president and grand old man. ¶ Resignation of the Week : Nobel Prize-winning Physicist Arthur H. Compton as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. One of the pioneers of atomic research, Compton will remain at the university as Distinguished Service Professor of natural philosophy, devote his life to studying "the relation of science to human affairs...