Electron theory: Description and analogy
JUL 01, 1957
We are indebted to Dr. G. C. Danielson, Chairman of the John Franklin Carlson Lecture Fund Committee, for having offered the text of the first Carlson Lecture for publication in these pages. The lectures, which are held in memory of Frank Carlson (1898–1954), professor of physics at Iowa State College, Ames, Iowa, from 1946 until his death, are made possible under a fund established by his friends for the purpose of bringing to Iowa State College each year an outstanding scholar to speak on some aspect of physical science, its philosophical implications, and its relation to human affairs, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, N.J., gave the present lecture at the Ames campus on May 17, 1955. The second lecture was to have been given last year by John von Neumann, but owing to his fatal illness it had to be cancelled. This year’s lecture was given on May 1st by P.W. Bridgman.
It is a very special sort of privilege to give this lecture in honor and in memory of Carlson who was, for many of us, both a friend and a colleague. It is certainly appropriate that, as we mourn his loss, we try, as well as we can, to do the kind of thing that he did when he was with us, that he would approve and did approve in his life. It is, of course, also a great pleasure for me to be here in Ames, at a growing and already very famous center of study in many fields, including physics, Carlson’s specialty.
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J. Robert Oppenheimer,
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