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...John Van Vleck, winner of the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physics and Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy emeritus, died in his sleep yesterday morning in Cambridge. He was 81 years...
Described by his longtime colleague Edward M. Purcell, Gade University Professor, as "a very great and very much loved friend," Van Vleck is best known for creating the modern theory of quantum magnetism based on quantum mechanics...
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Van Vleck grew up in Wisconsin, where his father was a professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin...
Purcell, who was a student of Van Vleck's in the 1930s at Harvard, said yesterday he was "extremely friendly--he treated us all as equals, when we were students and later...
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...