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During the McCarthy era, Buck demonstrated "qualities of statesmanship" in his defense of Harvard's academic freedom from Congressional attacks which he believed infringed upon the University's constitutional rights, John van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, and a friend of Buck's for a half-century, said yesterday...
Physics. For laying some of the theoretical foundations of modern electronic circuitry-which make possible computers and other electronic marvels-and for paving the way for a new generation of less costly semiconductors, the prize for physics was equally apportioned among three men. John H. Van Vleck, 78, who retired as a professor of physics at Harvard University eight years ago, initiated the work half a century ago by developing a general theory of magnetism. His later explanation of the effect of a foreign atom on the structure and electrical properties of a crystal helped make possible the development...
Philip W. Anderson, 53, who is a researcher at Bell Laboratories and a professor of physics at Princeton University, first became interested in physics as a student of Van Vleck's. He extended the basic understanding of magnetism and explained the conducting properties of electrons in amorphous materials like glass, which do not have the patterned atomic structure of crystalline substances like silicon. Sir Nevill Mott, 72, former head of the famed Cavendish Laboratory at England's Cambridge University, provided the theoretical underpinnings of modern solid-state physics in the 1920s. His later work with amorphous materials...
...Physics Department hosted a reception for Van Vleck. Nobel laureates William N. Lipscomb, professor of Chemistry, and Edward M. Pureell, Gade Professor of Physics, joined in toasting their colleague...
After Tuesday's hectic pace Van Vleck's life has calmed down again. But he says he is "still in a state of surprise"--which may persist until he arrives in Stockholm on December 10 to accept the most coveted of prizes...