
Luminaries
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This volume of memoirs provides a unique glimpse into the minds, classrooms, and private studies of some of the most distinguished professors of the twentieth century as seen by their former graduate students and junior colleagues. Ranging across the humanities, the hard sciences, the social sciences, and the applied sciences, something of the intellectual history of this century has been made accessible, enjoyable, and emphatically human by way of these portraits of Princeton faculty.
The fifty faculty members who are the subjects of the essays made significant contributions to their fields of study. Each essay delivers a brief guided tour of "the state of the art, back when.," discusses the contributions made by these Princetonians, and offers personal vignettes and anecdotes at unexpected turns. The contributors were chosen based on their ability to inform their essays with a personal perspective. Each knew his or her subject as a teacher or mentor, and makes this person come alive for the reader. The result is an informative and emotional journey throughout the intellectual life of this century.
Originally published in 1997.
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CONTENTS, pg. v
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS, pg. ix
ADVISORY COMMITTEE, pg. xi
INTRODUCTION, pg. xiii
Carlos Heard Baker, pg. 1
Gerald Eades Bentley, pg. 5
Nina Berberova, pg. 13
Cyril Edwin Black, pg. 21
Richard Palmer Blackmur, pg. 29
Américo Castro, pg. 37
Kenneth Hamilton Condit, pg. 45
Edwin Grant Conklin, pg. 51
Wesley Frank Craven, pg. 59
Luigi Crocco, pg. 67
George Eckel Duckworth, pg. 74
Donald Drew Egbert, pg. 82
Eric Frederick Goldman, pg. 86
Donald Ross Hamilton, pg. 109
Elmore Harris Harbison, pg. 113
Philip Khûri Hitti, pg. 119
Edward Dudley Hume Johnson, pg. 125
Edward Ellsworth Jones, pg. 135
Louis Landa, pg. 141
Leon Lapidus, pg. 147
Solomon Lefschetz, pg. 152
William Arthur Lewis, pg. 157
William Wirt Lockwood, pg. 166
Robert Helmer MacArthur, pg. 174
Fritz Machlup, pg. 182
Alpheus Thomas Mason, pg. 190
Oskar Morgenstem, pg. 198
Dana Gardner Munro, pg. 204
Whitney Jennings Oates, pg. 210
Robert Paul Ramsey, pg. 219
Durant Waite Robertson, Jr., pg. 228
Henry Norris Russell, pg. 235
William Feay Shdlman, Jr., pg. 243
Allen Goodrich Shenstone, pg. 253
Earl Baldwin Smith, pg. 264
Henry DeWolf Smyth, pg. 273
Harold and Margaret Sprout, pg. 285
Joseph Reese Strayer, pg. 297
Oliver Strunk, pg. 305
Hugh Stott Taylor, pg. 311
Willard Thorp, pg. 319
Melvin Marvin Tumin, pg. 328
Jacob Viner, pg. 336
Gregory Vlastos, pg. 341
Ira Owen Wade, pg. 351
Kurt Weitzmann, pg. 358
Eugene Paul Wigner, pg. 366
Richard Herman Wilhelm, pg. 374
CONTRIBUTORS, pg. 381
INDEX, pg. 399
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