Biographical Memoirs. vol. XXVIII. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., 1954 (Order from Columbia Univ. Press, New York). 311 pp. Plates. Paper, $4

Science ◽  
1954 ◽  
Vol 120 (3125) ◽  
pp. 835-835
Author(s):  
J. OPPENHEIMER
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Mathematics, Peace, and the Cold War

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (5) ◽  
pp. 556-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brit Shields
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The United States ◽  
New York University ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Political Role ◽  
Exchange Program ◽  
Mathematical Sciences ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

This paper seeks to combine studies of émigré scientists, Cold War American science, and cultural histories of mathematical communities by analyzing Richard Courant’s participation in the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program with the Soviet Union in the 1960s. Following his dismissal by the Nazi government from his post as Director of the Göttingen Mathematics Institute in 1933, Courant spent a year at the University of Cambridge, and then immigrated to the United States where he developed the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Courant’s participation with the National Academy of Sciences interacademy exchange program at the end of his career highlights his ideologies about the mathematics discipline, the international mathematics community, and the political role mathematicians could play in contributing to international peace through scientific diplomacy. Courant’s Cold War scientific identity emerges from his activities as an émigré mathematician, institution builder, and international “ambassador.”

Harley William Moon (1936–2018)

2019 ◽  
Vol 367 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans U Bertschinger ◽  
Christiane J Duchesnes ◽  
Jacques G Mainil ◽  
Andreas Pospischil ◽  
Béla Nagy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Animal Disease ◽  
State University ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Iowa State University ◽  
Intestinal Diseases ◽  
Veterinary Research Institute ◽  
Veterinary Research ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Research Institute

ABSTRACT Harley William Moon,DVM, Ph.D., an outstanding American person and researcher of comparative microbiology and pathology of intestinal diseases, the former director of the USDA, ARS, National Animal Disease Center (Iowa), of Plum Island Animal Disease Center (New York) and of Veterinary Research Institute of Iowa State University, member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) passed away after some difficult and lonely last years of his life, on October 7, 2018 at the age of 82.

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