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...February 26, Victor Weisskopf, professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, became the first to boycott the University for its ban on Oppenheimer...
...Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Professor (of physics) Victor F. Weisskopf, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says: "Whereas there are now numerically fewer refusals of visas, there are considerably fewer applications, as many foreign scientists react against the needless indignities and delays accompanying them. Rather than become involved in long, drawn-out procedures . . . [they show] complete reluctance to visit the U.S. for meetings...
...Weisskopf believes that the growing isolation of U.S. scientists is serious. "The development of science is based on cross-fertilization of ideas and informal discussion between scientists. The reading of manuscripts and papers is of very little help. The main ideas are transmitted by personal contact . . . For each scientist who passes up an invitation to visit the United States, scientific exchange is lost, to the unqualified and complete disadvantage of the Western world...
...Thomas Committee's smear of scientists is just an episode," Professor Victor K. Weisskopf of M.I.T. told the Student's Association of the Natural and Social Sciences last night in Winthrop House...
...really wanted to campaign against scientists, even Thomas wouldn't have started with a man as guiltless as Bureau of standards head Edward Condon," Professor Weisskopf said...