Princeton University - Bric A Brac Yearbook (Princeton, NJ)

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1)1. Norman Frwk Cantor, Assistant Professor of Hisloiv and Philip l.iiulslcy Picccploi, lecluies tlic course Modern Britain, the snbjcct of one of his many fields of interest, . fler receiving his I.. . degree from Princeton in 19.53. he was offered a Rhodes Scholarship and studied in Oxford. When he rclnrned. he received his Ph.D. and earned a Proctoi and Gamble Foundation Fellowship for research. His first book, Cliiircli, Kiiii liif), and Lax Iinifstilints in England, 10S ' -I IJi, wa.s published in 1958. Dr. RoiuRr Rosiwi i.l Pai.mir, cnrrent Dodge Professor of His- tory, is the author of Hislury of the Modern World, a standard college textbook. He has written a iuind)cr of books on modern Fuiopean history, and has compiled Rand McXally ' s Alias of World History. Recently he was engaged in research on the late eighteenth century revolulionary movement in F.inopc. Professor Palmer re- ceived his Ph.D. at Cornell in Hl. ' il and later served in ihe Wai Department ' s Historical .Section. M.vsrRiD Hvi fi R . at Princeton on a leave of absence from the Stale Department, has lectured both graduate and inidergraduale tonrses spcciali ing in the politics ol I he Middle Fast, . fter receiving his 1J.. . in I.iteratme fioni r. l... .. Mr. Halpern tinne d his attention to the Middle Fast and did his graduate work at the .School of . dvaiued International Studies in Wash- ington. He has worked for the State Department foi eleven yeais and now .selves as .Special . ssistant to the Chief ol the Division for Research and . nalvsis for the Near Fast. South Asia, and . frica. Piesentlv. be is preparing a book — Front Moro((d to Pakistan, |c)sri ' n Riisr Sirvmr. Chairman of Ihe Department of History, is kept cpiite busy by Icctming both giacluale and undergrad- uate courses in medieval history ancl by serving on seveial faculty coniiuiltees. For five years Professor St raver was a member of the Histoiical . dvisorv Committee for the . ' ir Force and has written several books, including the vvidelv lead Wi ' .lirn l ' .urol c in th, Mnldir .l.ijcv

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I ' lofcssor Oaukii I, A. Ai momi joined tlie f.Kiil( of ihe Woodiow Wilson Sdiool in Ui51. Dnring World War II he worked in the Olfice of War Information and in the Ollice of Ccnlral Intelligence. Dr. .Mmond came to the l ' ni ersil from (he Inslitnic of International Studies and now lectures Modern Democracies. Most famous among his several publications is The Appeals of C(»nm inisni. Dr. l-,i) . Ki) r. I iRV. Kr N taught at Har ard and at the University of the Philippines before joining the faculty of the Department of Economics and Sociology at Princeton. While completing his undergraduate work here, Dr. Tirvakian was an outstanding student. Later he received a Kulbright siholarshij) foi research in the Philippines and is now specializing in mcthodologv and in the sociological aspects of South .African affairs. Dr. I ' Ric F. GoLDM.VN. an authority on American cultinal history, has written many books in his field, induding Rendezvous with Destiny, A History of Modem American Reform, for which he received the Ikincroft Prize in 19. ' ).S. He came to Princeton in 1942 from Johns Hopkins Universitv and now lectures Modern .America, a po| ular upperclass history coinse. Dr. Gordon .Ai.ilxwdir C raic, distinguished his- torian and specialist in the fields of diplomatic and militarx history, joined the Department of History in 19 II and nine years later was advanced to a full pro- fessorship. ' alcdictoiian of the Piinceton Class of 19 ' ifi and later Rhodes Scholar. Dr. Craig has been a consultant to various go ernmcnt groups and has written prolificalh on militarx hisiorv. His course, European Diplomacy since 1856 , is outstanding for the insight it provides into foieign affairs. Dr. Ai.pnii ' s Thomas .Ma.so . McCorinick Professor of Jurispiu dente, has been a member of the Politics Dei)aument since 192, ' i. Up to this year the lecturer of the difficidt but popular upperclass coinse Constitutional Interpretation, Professor Mason is at present engaged in a three year study mider a Rockefeller grant of the office and powers of the Chief jiistice of the Supreme Court. Most of Dr. Mason ' s writing has dealt with the Supreme Coint, and his latest book, a biography of Harlan Fiske Stone, received one of the three American Library .Association Liberty and Justice Book Awards.

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A MU ' iiibci ut ihc I.LciiU since !9L ' I. Di. Hi NR Di WOir Smvth is iio ' Joseph Hfiii I ' lofessoi of Plivsics and Chairman ol ' the Board of Sclcnliric and Enginecrino; Re- search at Princeton. As a memljer of the A.F..C.. he wrote Aloinic Energy for Military Purposes, an oHicial report on tlie de elopment of the Atomic Bomb ivhich has become known as the Sniytli Report. Prior to the . toms-for- Peace Conference licld in Clenexa in 19.5.5 he wrote Science and Peace, a piiliiication wliicli was distribnled tliroiiglioiit Knrope. One ol tile coLmtr ' s tiislingnished biulogisis ami Ciiaiimaii of the Biology Department since UM8. Arthur K. 1 ' . rpart was director of the wartime project whicli made the iiivaUiable coii- triljntion to medicine of lengthening the maximnm storage lime of human blood. Later, Dr. Parpart ga e the first public demon- stration of televLsed microscopy, a technifpie which extended the range and power of the microscope by using the electronic eyes of the (elexision camera. Natural Sciences English born Dr. Colin S. Pii ri.NDRicH. Professor of Bi- ology, spent several years slndying malaria in Trinidad liefore joining the Princeton faculty in HM7. Popnlar Icc- liircr of ' General Biology , Dr. Pitlendrigh has written inan scientific papers on ma- laria and genetics and is the anthor of Lite, one of the most imaginative biological lexts ever published. He is al present studying the time measuring devices of various organisms. Dr. John A. Whefi.er of the Physics Depart- ment, an instrumental figure in the de elopment of the atomic and hvdrogen bombs, is one of the nation ' s onlslanding specialists in the fields of nuclear fission, cosmic ra ])hvsics. and the struc- ture and transformations of atomic nuclei and clementarv particles. His mathematical discovery of a new body, the geon, ties together the con- cepts of gravitation and makes possible a new appioach to I ' instein ' s I ' nified Field Theorv.