Brown University - Liber Brunensis Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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CONDUCTING EXTENSIVE RESEARCH in the control of directions and rates of chemical reactions, Dr. William W. Russell, MNewport Professor of Chemistry, has served Brown for almost four decades. He has served on the Committee on Academic Standing and the Committee on Honors Council. In addition, Professor Russell is a member of the American Chemical Society, Sigma Xi and the Amer ican Association for the Advancement of Science. He has published numerous arficles in his field analytical chemistry. Chairman of the chemistry department, Dr. Robert H. Cole, Metcalf Professor of Chemistry since 1960, directs many research projects supported by grants from scientific foundations, government agencies and indus trial concerns. He is a member of several scientific societies and serves on the executive committee of the division of chemical physics of the American Physical Society. In addition, he is chairman of the university's Physical Sciences Council. Recently, Dr. Cole studied and presenfed o peper in Europe on the electrical properties of liquids and solids. cf

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THE DIRECTOR cf fhe imposing new BM 7070 is Dr. William Prager, one of the fore- most authorities in the fie ds of applied math- ematics and mechonics. e s the former chairman of the Physical Sciences Councll, having gotten awards for his work which has vitally influenced many pheses of engineering. He is a linquist of note and his six orinciple books have been translated into many lan- guages. Dr. Prager, a Herbert Ballou Uni versity Professor, has been instrumental in bringing the graduate divisicn of applied mathematics to a position of recognized lead- ership. Dr. Robert Bruce lindsay, Hazard Professor of Physics since 1936, maintains not only an active position at Brown as Dean of the Graduate School and advisor for inde pendent studies in physics, but also an infer national reputation as a theoretical physicist having published widely in such specializea fields as ultrasonics, mechanical radiation, and motion. His numerous books and articles in- cluding one in the 1957 Encyclopedia Britan- nica on sound, and his service as vice-presi- dent of the American Academy of Arts and ociences and as a8 member of the governing board of the American Institute of Physics makes Dr. Lindsay one of Brown's most illus- trious faculty members,

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RICHARD C. TAYLOR right joined the Brown faculty as an instructor in 1949 and attained professorship in 1958, He is the William Herbert Perry Faunce Professor of Philosophy. Periodicals in the United States, England and Australla have published his articles. and he has finished work on a book entitied Causation, Free Will and Time. Professor Taylor is one of the innovaters of the IC curriculum, and as a teacher, his efforts have re. sulted in several published papers by graduate students., SERVING in his first year as English Department Chairman, Edward A Bloom, Nicholas Brown Pro- fessor of Oratory and Belles Lettres, has been a regular contributor of book reviews to the Saturday Review and Providence Sunday Journal. His untir- ing efforts not only include an early marning literary criticism course but also collaboration in several eagerly awaited publications. Among the years efforts is a5 revised text on poetic analysis written by Chairman Bloom and his colleagues Elmer M. Blistein and Charles L. Philbrick,