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EINSTEIN WAS NOT ALONE AMONG
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Atomic Experts
By ARTHUR LEWIS
Among the scientists who are
advising the Secretary General on
the corning International Confer
ence on Atomic Energy, there are
two Jews. They are: Dr. Isidor
Isaac Rabi, the American represen
tative, who is a Nobel Prize win
ner in physics, and Dr. Bertrand
Goldschmidt who is the French
delegate and is one of the young
est men to have such a responsible
position for he has only just turned
forty.
Both of them are members of
the advisory committee which has
already drawn up the conference’s
agenda and set its date and place
(August and Geneva . The com
mittee's task now is to screen the
papers which will be presented at
this historic scientific meeting.
A small grey man whose eyes
have a slighly quizzical, slightly
humorous look, behind their
glasses Dr. Rabi is one of the lead
ing atomic scientists in the United
States. Although his name may
not be as well known as those of
others, he has played an important
a role as anybody in the develop
ment of the atomic bomb and the
maintenance of American superi
ority in the nuclear field.
Dr. Rabi is a member of the
General Advisory Committee of the
Atomic Energy Commission at the
present time, and is a trustee of
the Brookhaven National Labora
tory. A lecturer and professor in
physics at Columbia University
since the twenties, he was named
to the "Vacuum Tube Develop
ment." one of the cover organiza
tions of the National Defense Re
search Council for the develop
ment of the atomic bomb, when it
was formed. He was the chairman
of this committee from 1942 to
1945, and a consultant at the great
atomic bomb manufacturing plant
of Los Alamos from 1943 to 1945.
Besides winning the Nobel Prize
in 1944, Dr. Rabi was awarded the
Elliot Cresson Medal of the Frank
lin Institute in 1941, and the prize
of the American Association for
Advancement of Science in 1939.
He gained all these honors for his
work in the field of nuclear phys
ics, quantum mechanics and mole
cular beams.
Despite his job as professor at
Columbia University and the work
he was doing for the government
on the atomic bomb, Dr. Rabi found
time to be an associate director of
the Radiation Laboratory of the
Massachusetts Institute of Technol
ogy and a member of the Scientific
Advisory Committee of the Ballis
tics Research Laboratory in Aber
deen, Scotland.
The American representative,
who is 57 years old, regards him
self as a New Yorker; he lives on
Riverside Drive overlooking the
Hudson River and close to his be
loved Columbia University. He has
not only taught at that great insti
tution of learning; he was educated
t here.
After graduation, Dr. Rabi won
an International Education Board
Fellowship which took him to uni
versities in Munich, Copenhagen,
Hamburg, Leipzig and Zurich. Thus
he has an international background
for his work on the advisory com
mittee.
The youthful looking Dr. Gold
schmidt is just as much a Parisian
as Dr. Rabi is a New Yorker; he
was born in Paris, was educated
there, and has his home there now.
From the time that he received an
engineering degree at the age of
21 to the Fall of France, he was en
gaged in research at the Curie La
boratory.
In 1941, he escaped to Great Brit
ain and joined the Free French
Forces. From 1942 until 1946, Dr.
Goldschmidt was placed at the dis
posal of the Department of Scien
tific and Industrial Research of
Great Britain, and worked on the
development of the atomic bomb.
He was first at the Metallurgical
Laboratory in Chicago and then
subsequently, with the British-Ca-
nadian Atomic Group in Montreal
and at Chalk River, Canada.
Shortly after the war, Dr. Gold
schmidt returned to France where
he lectured in chemistry at the
Sorbonne in Paris. He joined
France’s Atomic Energy Commis
sion when it was formed and work
ed on the production of plutonium;
he is now the director of the chem
istry division in the commission.
Dr. Goldschmidt represented
France at the Atomic bomb tests
carried out by the United States
at Bikini Atoll in 1946. He was
also a technical adviser for the
French delegation to the United
Nations Atomic Energy Commis
sion in 1946, 1947 and 1948, so
that he is no stranger here.
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