Word: vleck
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...retrospect Van Vleck admits he may have been "too cautious." Congratulatory telegrams poured in throughout the day, and buried in the pile of wires was the official acknowledgement of the Swedish Academy. He was, indeed, a Nobel laureate...
...rest of the day passed at a roadrunner's pace. The Harvard News Office hastily scheduled a press conference at 11 a.m. Amid a bevy of microphones and whirring television cameras, Van Vleck expressed his personal pleasure and noted that his selection was a "recognition of the importance of pure science...
...Vleck did not receive the Nobel Prize for a particular discovery, but for "highly valuable contributions" in a career that spanned three decades. He is known as the "father of modern magnetism," the first physicist to apply the theory of quantum mechanics to magnets...
...first American to write a Ph.D. thesis on quantum theory, a topic suggested to him by Edwin C. Kemble, professor of Physics Emeritus and Van Vleck's mentor...
After the press conference, Van Vleck returned home to catch his breath and plow through the growing mountain of telegrams...