University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Physical Sciences If the physical world is founded on the back of a tortoise which is supported by a dozen elephants which are held up by two strong muumains, those mountains are named Chemistry and Physics. A great number of Chicago students Choose to scale those heights, first, just because they are there, and secondarily because, in this age, the realms of in- dustry, medicine, and the military receive their vi- tality from the physical sciences. Besides chemiStry and physics, the Division of the Physical Sciences also includes departments in astronomy and astrophysics, geography, mathemat- ics, meteorology, and others. Added to these are The Institutes, as they are called, tThe Institute fm- the Study of Metals and the Enrico Fermi Insti- tute for Nuclear Studiest which present advanced studies in the more recent developments obtaining in the physical sciences. Courses in the Division range from the august, ethereal heights of 499 tResearch for Post-Ph.D. Fellowst to a rather pedestrian level referred to as Elementary Glass Blowing. A UC physicist working on the cyclotron in the pit of the accelerator building. 16

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Among the visiting professors and assistant pro- fessors in the Department of Mathematics were Dr. Lars Garding tLund University, Dr. Remt Thom tUnivetsiteE de Strasbourg, and Dr. Masatake Kuranishi Gnstitute for Advanced StudyL The Department of Meteorology maintains lab- oratories for research in hydrodynamic models, cloud physics, and instrument development. 1.0- cated 0n the Quadrangles is a center for weather forecasting research, working with the Chicago District forecasr: center of the United States Weath- er Bureau. The Department of Physics, in collaboration With the Institutes, is especially equipped for ex- perimental and theoretical research in mass spec- troscopy, cosmic rays, Iow-temperature physics, and solid-state physics. Counted among the lam; e: penates of the Fermi Institute are a 170-inch syn- chrocyclotron, a lOO-million-volt betatron, and a 400-kilovolt Cocktroft-Walton accelerator. An experiment tbelowj! with liquid mer- Cury in a magnetic field; Boxtoanhe control room of the cyclotron