Theoretical Physics Conference, 1936
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A group of leading scientists from various American and foreign universities will gather in Washington Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, April 27-29, [1936] for the second Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics under the joint auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and The George Washington University.
These annual conferences are an outgrowth of the researches in fundamental physics begun some years ago by the Carnegie Institution and the work which is being done at The George Washington University. Dr. M.A. Tuve and Dr. L.R. Hafstad of the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, and Dr. Gregory Breit, Jr., formerly of the Department and now at Princeton University, head the work in this field at the Carnegie Institution; while at The George Washington University it is in charge of Dr. George Gamow, Professor of Theoretical Physics, and Dr. Edward Teller, Visiting Professor of Theoretical Physics.
Dr. Gamow, formerly of the Institute of Mathematical Physics and the Academy of Sciences at Leningrad, is the pioneer in the theoretical investigation of atomic nuclei and first formulated the modern theory of radio-activity. Dr. Teller is a Hungarian theoretical physicist whose researches, devoted to the theory of molecule-structure and the dynamics of chemical reaction, are of great significance to experimental chemists in the field of physics and chemistry. Both Dr. Gamow and Dr. Teller have worked at the principal European centers with the scientists who are the leading figures of the age, - at Munich with A. Sommerfeld, at Copenhagen with Nils Bohr, at Leipzig with W. Heisenberg, and at Gottingen with Born. Before coming to The George Washington University last fall Dr. Teller spent a year at the University of London working with the great English physico-chemist, Donnan.
Among those who will come to Washington for the conference are: Linus Carl Pauling, California Institute of Technology; Robert S. Mulliken, University of Chicago; Harold Urey, Columbia University; G. Placzek, Institute of Copenhagen, Hans A. Bethe, Cornell University; Hertha Sponer, Duke University; Irving Langmuir, General Electric Company; Hubert Maxwell James, Edwin Crawford Kremble, J.H. VanVleck, and E. Bright Wilson, Jr., Harvard University; James Holley Bartlett, University of Illinois; Donald Hatch Andrews, Gerhard Heinrich Dieke, James Franck, Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Joseph Edward Mayer, Johns Hopkins University; John Clarke Slater and George E. Kimball, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; David Mathias Dennison, University of Michigan; Gregory Breit, Edward Uhler Condon, Henry Eyring, R. H. Fowler, and Hugh Stett Taylor, Princeton University; Lothar Nordheim and Gertrude Nordheim, Purdue University; Eugene Paul Wigner, University of Wisconsin.
Topics to be discussed by the scientists include: 1. Chemical Bond; 2. Reaction; Velocities; 3. Magnetism; 4. Van der Waal’s Forces; 5. Molecular Vibrations; 6. Isotopes.
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Date Added to Encyclopedia: January 11, 2007
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