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...position taken by Martin, who is the van Vleck professor of pure and applied physics and an ex-officio Core committee member, remains closely aligned to that taken by Harvard science professors 11 years ago. In a DAS straw-poll two months before the Core was approved in May, 1978, science faculty voted against the Core 23-3. The professors charged that the plan downplayed the importance of science and technology...
...current QRR obviously doesn't send out signals to the world that we expect a high level of quantitative skills," says Paul C. Martin, Vleck professor of pure and applied physics and FAS associate dean for the division of applied sciences. The question that Harvard faces now, according to Martin, is to what extent the requirement should be changed...
...symposia are aimed at informed laypeoplewho are aware of developments in a certain area,organizers said. "They're for the proverbialScientific American reader," said Paul C. Martin'52, Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics,who co-ordinated the science section of thesymposia. "We have tried to choose topics ofcurrent or future general interest to give a tasteof the type of science done at Harvard," he said...
Considered a pioneer in the modern theory of magnetism. Van Vleck served as dean of the Physics Department from 1945 to 1949 and was the first dean of the division of Applied Sciences, a post he held until 1957. Van Vleck received a Noble Prize for physics...
...delighted and honored to have a chair named after Van Vleck," said Martin. "I have a deep regard for him as a person and as a scholar...