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...Hasbrouch Van Vleck Professorship of Pure and Applied Physics, endowed for approximately $1 million, was established through donations given to the five-year Harvard Campaign fund drive...
...Vleck chair is one of several professorships already set up with part of the $191 million raised in the drive which seeks to collect $250 million by 1984, said a spokesman for the Harvard Development Office, who refused to identify himself...
About $60 million of the Campaign's total will go to senior professorships like the Van Vleck chair, the spokesman said...
DIED. John Van Vleck, 81, physicist regarded as the "father of modern magnetism"; in Cambridge, Mass. Van Vleck was the first to indicate the significance of "electron correlation," or the interaction between the motions of electrons; and his 1932 book, The Theory of Electric and Magnetic Susceptibilities, remains a classic in the field. His research, for which he was a co-recipient of the 1977 Nobel Prize for Physics, helped explain how a foreign atom invades the symmetrical structure of a crystal, and was basic to the development of modern computer memory systems...
...Vleck leaves his wife, Abigail Pearson Van Vleck. Private funeral services will be held today. A Harvard memorial service will be announced