Word: rabi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among the notable discussants were Perry Miller, professor of American Literature; W. V. Quine, professor of Philosophy; Susanne K. Langer of Connecticut; Lewis Mumford; Sidney Hook of N.Y.U.; Ernest Nagel of Columbia; I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prize winning physicist of Columbia; Detlev W. Bronk, president of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research; John E. Burchard, president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, co-sponsor of the conference...
...Rabi, Nobel-prizewinning physicist from Columbia, will chair the second session at which Frank, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, will speak on "Modern Science and the Basic Conceptions of our Present World View...
...same time, I.I. Rabi, professor of Physics at Columbia and last fall's Morris Loeb Lecturer, was named to the governing body of the Academy...
...Weisskopf, Morris Loeb Lecturer for the spring term and one of Rabi's lifelong friends, was in "complete agreement" with Rabi. "The real value of science for our civilization is that it aids man to understand his environment. The public has lost its understanding of science's philosophical importance," Weisskopf said...
Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, labelled Rabi's opinion "an awfully good statement which speaks for itself." Ramsey is in New York attending the Institute's meeting. He was supported by Leonard K. Nash, associate professor of Chemistry...