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Norman F. Ramsey, professor of Physics, yesterday denied that there was any political significance in the Atomic Energy Commission's decision to present the 1963 Fermi Award to J. Robert Oppenheimer...
...member of the nine-man General Advisory Committee which nominates candidates to receive the annual $50,000 prize, Ramsey called it a mistake to look for "deep seated political motives" in this year's choice...
...Many of us have felt for years that he deserved it, but there were always many other good candidates." Ramsey said that he himself had written to the General Advisory Committee before he became a member in 1960, recommending Oppenheimer for the prize...
Describing the committee as an independent body which could not be influenced by politics, Ramsey said that he had never been subjected to any pressure to nominate Oppenheimer...
...Ramsey is more and more concerned about public issues, as though heeding such critics as Author J. B. Priestley, who wrote recently that the Church of England "spends too much time dressing itself up and not enough time dressing other people down." The Archbishop fights capital punishment, advocates general (though not unilateral) disarmament, spoke out vehemently in the House of Lords against the bill to slow nonwhite immigration from other Commonwealth countries. Last week the church proposed the establishment of a National Council of Alcoholism-predicated on the recognition that alcoholism is a disease rather than a moral flaw...