Word: vleck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physics concentrators at the University of Moscow outnumber their Harvard counterparts ten to one, according to John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...Vleck, a member of the five-man Harvard team sent to the universities of Moscow and Leningrad in February 1959, praised Soviet work in physics, stating that it had equaled the American level for the past ten years...
Similarly, scientific professors, especially members of the exclusive Academy of Sciences, are comparatively "big men" in the Soviet social scale. Doty likened them yesterday to top-level American executives in the amount of reward they reap from society, which Van Vleck commented on the large number of cars and chauffeurs they have. As Doty pointed out, "In Russia science is an area where you receive according to your ability...
Other members of the returning Harvard group were Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics; Albert B. Lord '34, professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; and John H. Van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy...
...Vleck, who visited scientific laboratories, was impressed by "the enormous number of able and hard-working people." Three thousand are enrolled in the five year physics course at the University of Moscow. Both Leontief and Lord feel that the Russian educators know more about us than we do about them...