Physics at Columbia University: the genesis of the nuclear-energy project; transcript of an informal speech, January 30, 1954.

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Physics at Columbia University: the genesis of the nuclear-energy project; transcript of an informal speech, January 30, 1954.

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Fermi's address to the American Physical Society's program in celebration of the bicentennial of Columbia University.

13 pp.

American Institute of Physics, Niels Bohr Library

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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