Word: vleck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John H. Van Vleck for investigations in quantum mechanics; G. Wallace Woodworth to investigate the sources of Bach's styles in the music of the seventeenth century...
...Vleck, the well-known physicist, graduated from Wisconsin in 1920, and took his Masters' and Doctor's degrees here. After serving an instructorship here, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Leland Stanford, and finally at Wisconsin. He has done research work on the quantum theory and is the author of many scientific pamphlets. His duties next year will be divided between mathematics, quantum mathematics, and his research work...
John Hasbrouck Van Vleck has been elected associate professor of mathematics and physics. He received his master's and doctor's degree in 1921 and 1922 from Harvard and after serving as an instructor here for a year he became professor of Physics at the University of Minnesota and since 1928 he has been professor of theoretical physics at the University of Wisconsin...
...President-elect's arrival at Warm Springs climaxed an arduous and eventful week. In Manhattan he had watched Socialite Artist Natalie Van Vleck, who went to work in a chauffeured Rolls-Royce, dab the finishing touches to his portrait. By going 16 hours at a stretch, he had kept as many appointments as 50 per day. He had found time to address retiring President Abbott Lawrence Lowell and "the Harvard family" at the University's club. He had endorsed the back-to- the-farm movement and Secretary of State Stimson's reiterated Far Eastern policy of nonrecognition...
Died. Colonel William Aiken Starrett, 54, builder of skyscrapers, president of Starrett Corp.; after a series of apoplectic strokes; in Madison, N. J. One of five brothers, all builders or architects, he successively founded Thompson-Starrett Co. (construction), Starrett & Van Vleck architects). Starrett Bros. & Eken, builders of the Empire State Building and nucleus of his holding company, Starrett Corp. As chairman of the War Industries Board's construction committee, Builder Starrett directed the erection of all cantonments, hospitals. Army bases in the U. S. To Japan he introduced special teel frame buildings designed to resist arthquakes. An articulate champion...