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Tag: Gerald Holton
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Nation & World
A plaque recalls aid in escaping from Nazis
Harvard re-installs plaque honoring students from the late 1930s who started a scholarship that helped 16 European refugees flee Nazi persecution and study at Harvard.
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Nation & World
Storied Irving Street paves way to history
Cambridge’s Irving Street has been the inspirational home to, among others, a famed psychologist, poet, chef, historian, chemist, and physicist.
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Nation & World
Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr.
At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on April 7, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Higgins Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was spread upon the records. Professor Ramsey received the Nobel Prize in 1989 for inventing the separated oscillatory field method and the hydrogen…
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Nation & World
‘A completely new life was beckoning’
Interview with Gerald Holton as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
Robert Vivian Pound
At a Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on October, 2, 2012, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Robert Vivian Pound, Mallinckrodt Professor of Physics, Emeritus, was placed upon the records. Professor Pound was one of the historic figures of twentieth-century physics, playing a central role in several discoveries…
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Nation & World
Alan Turing at 100
Harvard’s Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments celebrates the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, whose ideas theorized the first computers, spurred the science of artificial intelligence, and — oh yes — helped save the Allies during World War II.
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Nation & World
Paul Tillich at Harvard
Four speakers recalled the spiritual and intellectual ambition of theologian Paul Tillich in an event marking the 50th anniversary of his retirement from Harvard.
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Cold War fever
A tactile exhibit called “Cold War in the Classroom” views recent history through the artifacts of a dangerous era, the tensions from which penetrated American schools.
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Nation & World
The gifts of immigration
Two Harvard researchers say that new U.S. residents, most of whom are young and nonwhite, reflect not just policy challenges, but an immense reservoir of social potential.
