To celebrate the intellectual achievement of the University of Chicago on the occasion of its centennial year, Edward Shils invited a group of notable scholars and scientists to reflect upon some of their own teachers and colleagues at the University.
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In commemoration of the University of Chicago's centennial, 45 former students and colleagues here set down recollections and summarize the careers of 47 figures who "dominated the intellectual life" of the school between 1920 and 1980. The concentration of individuals associated with Chicago's celebrated departments of physics and economics might make for monotony, but the writers' deep appreciation for their subjects charges the reader with wonder at the variety (and warmth) within disciplines. The best memoirs inspire awe, excitement and admiration, especially when research itself is illuminated--John Simpson on physicist Arthur Holly Compton, Paul Talalay on medical scientist Charles Brenton Huggins. Of the handful of "celebrity" contributors, Edward Teller somewhat neglects his subject, physicist James Franck, but even readers who find Teller's essay self-serving will admire his graceful, affable performance. Robert Bork is a different matter: in his able presentation of former university president Edward Levi, he becomes petulant when discussing the '60s student movement. The foreword by sociologist Shils is fraught with puffery.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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CYNTHIA COHEN was an undergraduate in sociology in the first half of the 1930s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frank Knight, Second World War, New York, Columbia University, Jacob Viner, Edward Levi, University of Michigan, Los Alamos, Harry Johnson, Cowles Commission, Johns Hopkins, Nuclear Studies, Soviet Union, Charles Huggins, George Stigler, Dallas Phemister, Yerkes Observatory, Enrico Fermi, Maria Mayer, Max Rheinstein, Williams Bay, First World War, Harold Urey, Great Britain, Max Weber New!
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Frank Knight, Second World War, New York, Columbia University, Jacob Viner, Edward Levi, University of Michigan, Los Alamos, Harry Johnson, Cowles Commission, Johns Hopkins, Nuclear Studies, Soviet Union, Charles Huggins, George Stigler, Dallas Phemister, Yerkes Observatory, Enrico Fermi, Maria Mayer, Max Rheinstein, Williams Bay, First World War, Harold Urey, Great Britain, Max Weber New!
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- Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile: The Making of a Political Philosopher (Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry) by Eugene Sheppard in Back Matter
- Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science by James Gilbert in Back Matter
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- Economic Sciences: 1991-1995 (Nobel Lectures) by Torsten Persson on page 34
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