Scene of Change↗

The population of Reedsburg, Wisconsin, in 1894 was something under two thousand persons. Whatever the exact number, it was increased by one on the early morning of July 17, for that is when and...

~$e— 2. College Because my family lived in Madison, Wisconsin, and residents of the state paid no tuition, it was a foregone conclusion that I would attend the University of Wisconsin. Great as is my...

<— 3. Throop/Caltech In the late spring of 1917 Dr. Robert A. Millikan (1868-1953)—the Nobel Prize measurer of the electrical charge of the electron—asked me to come to see him in Chicago. This was...

4. ‘Teaching at Wisconsin In September 1920, we returned to Madison and lived there for nearly twelve years. I went back to the university as an assistant professor, was made an associate professor...

_ During my teaching years at Madison, the University of Wisconsin, although modest in size by today’s standards, was the dominant factor in the life of the capital city. The atmosphere of the...

= 6. The War Years Extensive travel in Europe and many contacts with the Jewish refugee problem had convinced me, over the 1930s, that something evil was taking place in Germany. In spite of all my...

the guns of an airplane against enemy aircraft, and on equipment which made possible accurate and realistic testing of fire-control equipment. We had rather special success with the design of a bomb...

the conversation was totally unpredictable, but serious and rewarding. One day at lunch he asked me if I had read, in the Bell System Technical Journal, an article by Claude E. Shannon on a...

organization be planned and staffed. I told him bluntly that as things then were, his knowledge, his insights, his experience, his vision, and his ideals would end abruptly on that inevitable morning...

smoothly and continuously divisible entity, capable of existing in any amount, but rather that energy existed in discrete, indivisible bits. The validity of this powerful and strange new concept was...

lish biochemist and Orientalist Joseph Needham has devoted years to the study of Chinese language and culture, and he is producing an heroic series of volumes on the older “non-Western” aspects of...