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Victor F. Weisskopf, a theoretical physicist who worked on the team that built the first atomic bomb during World War II, and E. Bright Wilson, Richards Professor of Chemistry Emeritus, will also receive honorary degrees, at the culmination of this morning's portion of Harvard's 332nd Commencement exercises...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Katharine Graham and Meyer Schapiro Lead 1983's Roster of 6 Honorary Degree Recipients | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Other members of the delegation to the White House were Marshall W. Nirenberg, professor of genetics and biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health; Victor F. Weisskopf, professor of physics at MIT; and the Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Pio Laghi...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hiatt Meets Reagan On Nuclear Threat | 12/15/1981 | See Source »

...depths may become a new counterpart of the space program. Scientists are engaged in-a fascinating search into the structure of atomic particles. "This is a new world of muons, of quarks, and we shall have to invent a new language to cope with it," says M.I.T. Physicist Victor Weisskopf. Others are exploring DNA, the stuff of life itself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Lindbergh: The Heroic Curiosity | 5/23/1977 | See Source »

...could change in America, so he took his Ph.D. and good intentions to India, a neo-classicist Peace Corps man. At the time, he didn't realize it, but he was joining a Harvard generation of future radical economists in Third World countries Sam Bowles in Neigria. I am Weisskopf in India, and MacEwan in Pakistan. All went abroad as "straights" Marglin recalls that "it was a modern day version the white man's burden...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Radicalization of Stephen Marglin | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

Marglin followed the lead of Weisskopf. Bowles, Gintis, and MacEwan--non-tenured economists who abandoned the mainstream in the late '60s, and began developing a radical perspective on capitalism. In 1970, he offered a course with Gintis. "Alternatives to Neoclassical Theory." "I shudder when I think of the primitive nature of that course." Marglin says, recalling how eight or nine students came to hear them talk about their work Now, Marglin thinks that his classes are more systematic--"They're real courses," he says...

Author: By Tom Lee, | Title: The Radicalization of Stephen Marglin | 5/12/1975 | See Source »

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