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Цитата: бульдозер от 02.09.2013 11:52:55
.....Когда в 1986 году. М. Шифман принес в редакцию "Науки и жизни" свой перевод отдельных глав воспоминаний Ричарда Фейнмана, ему поставили два условия: никаких упоминаний о Клаусе Фуксе (которого Фейнман упомянул два раза, назвав "мой друг Фукс") и никаких намеков на то, что Фейнман - еврей . Когда до Харькова дошли воспоминания Р. Фейнмана на английском языке, А. И. Ахиезер никак не мог поверить словам Фейнмана, что его не приняли в Колумбийский университет из-за того, что он - еврей. А. И. Ахиезер написал письмо Роберту Маршаку (1916-1992) в США с вопросом: "Неужели это возможно?" Роберт Маршак ответил А. И. Ахиезеру: "У нас свободная страна, поэтому возможно всё!"

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  Вот такие времена в США были...

Цитата: бульдозер от 02.09.2013 11:52:55

 

Где-то на "Тикает" я писал об этом:

В 1947 на Shelter Island, это восточная оконечность Лонг Айленда, была самая, пожалуй, знаменитая из послевоенных конференций по теоретической физике.
Проходила она в новенькой с иголочки гостинице  Ram's Head Inn, и участниками были (уж придется на английском)

   Hans A. Bethe: head of the theoretical physics division at Cornell University; division head on the Manhattan Project; member of the National Academy of Science; Nobel prize winner for explanation of the suns thermonuclear processes.
   Felix Bloch: Stanford University; Nobel Prize (1952) for methods of measuring the magnetic fields of atomic nuclei (invited but could not attend).
   David Bohm: Princeton University; Fellow of the Royal Society of London; a former student of Oppenheimer. Bohm declined to testify at Oppenheimer's hearing before Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1950s for fear that his words might be twisted against his former mentor and he emigrated to England.
   Gregory Breit: Yale University; member of the National Academy of Science; co-author of the paper entitled "Effect of nuclear motion on the hyperfine structure of the ground term of hydrogen," which resulted from the Shelter Island meeting.
   K. K. Darrow: Bell Telephone Laboratories; popularizer of science; Secretary of the American Physical Society.
   Albert Einstein: Princeton University; Nobel Prize (1921) for the theory of relativity and the photoelectric effect; (invited but could not attend).
   Enrico Fermi: University of Chicago; Nobel Prize (1938) for the discovery of radioactive elements; creator of the nuclear chain reaction; (invited but could not attend; did attend Pocono meeting).
   Herman Feshbach: MIT; later Institute Professor Emeritus and editor of the Annals of Physics; moderator of a 1995 MIT conference on "Complexity, Life at the edge of Chaos."
   Richard P. Feynman: Cornell University; Nobel Prize (1965 with Schwinger and Tomonaga) for work on defining basic theories of quantum electrodynamics (QED); first theorist in molecular nanotechnology.
   H. A. Kramers: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; worked with Weisskopf on solving crucial renormalization problems in QED.
   Willis E. Lamb: Columbia University; discoverer of the gap between two energy levels that should have been identical (the Lamb shift); Nobel Prize (1955 with P. Kusch) for his discoveries concerning the structure of the hydrogen spectrum and his work on QED.
   Duncan MacInnes: the Rockefeller Institute; original proponent of the Shelter Island conference; former President of the New York Academy of Science; member of the National Academy of Science.
   Robert E. Marshak: University of Rochester; worked on British atomic bomb project in Montreal, Canada, then on the Manhattan Project; established the Rochester Conference series; first theorist of a second meson particle; proposed theory of V-A Theory of Weak Interactions; nominated several times but never received the Nobel Prize; also targeted by McCarthy but exonerated; his papers reside at Virginia Tech archives .
   C. Molle: Purdue University (invited but could not attend.) John von Neumann: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; mathematician and early computer scientist; game theorist; member of the National Academy of Science.
   Arnold Nordsieck: Bell Telephone Laboratories; later a specialist in the mathematics of computation; the University of California at Santa Barbara named an award for excellence in physics after him.
   J. Robert Oppenheimer: University of California; head of the Manhattan project; member of the National Academy of Science; renowned as a leader but less so as a physicist; never received a Nobel Prize; accused by Senator Joseph McCarthy of selling atomic bomb to the Soviets; eventually cleared of all charges.
   Abraham Pais: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University; his later work on strangeness and isospin at Brookhaven preceded and set the stage for Gell-Manns Nobel Prize winning efforts.
   Linus Pauling: California Institute of Technology; member of the National Academy of Science; Nobel prize winner in chemistry and competitor of Crick and Watson for discovery of the structure of DNA.
   Isidor Isaac Rabi: head of the physics program at Columbia; member of the National Academy of Science; Nobel Prize (1944) for his resonance method of recording the magnetic properties of atomic nuclei.
   Bruno Rossi: MIT; pioneer in cosmic ray research; one of the first researchers into X-ray astronomy and interplanetary plasma; worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project; member of the National Academy of Sciences.
   Julian Schwinger: Harvard University; first proponent of unification of weak and electromagnetic interactions; noted for work in renormalization of QED; Nobel Prize (1965 with Feynman and Tomonaga) for work on defining basic theories of quantum electrodynamics.
   Robert Serber: University of California; aide to Oppenheimer on the Manhattan Project; first to work on "critical mass" problem in nuclear bomb-making.
   Edward Teller: University of Chicago; leader of the hydrogen bomb project.
   George E. Uhlenbeck: University of Michigan; discoverer (with S. A. Goudsmit) that the electron has an intrinsic spin; co-authored (with Lamb and Nordsieck) a paper on the theory of cosmic ray showers.
   J. H. Van Vleck: Harvard University; Nobel Prize (1977 with Philip Anderson and Sir Nevill F. Mott) for contributions to solid-state electronics, solid-state circuitry, and the use of silicon in the development of computers; member of the National Academy of Science.
   Victor F. Weisskopf: MIT; Bethes deputy on the Manhattan project; early theorist in gluons, quantum chromodynamics (QCD), and renormalization of QED (with Kramers).
   J. A. Wheeler: Princeton University; former faculty advisor to Feynman; "a man who had the courage to look at any crazy problem, a fearless and intrepid explorer"(Robert Wilson).

Всю эту компанию примчали на место в специальном автобусе, на последнем этапе под завывание сирен полицейского эскорта.

Это опускается во всех официальных историях конференции, но когда толпа из автобуса вывалилась, то хозяин гостиницы с выпученными глазами сказал, что, конечно же, гостиницу сдать под конференцию он согласился, но никто не предупредил его, что будет столько евреев, а лошадей, индейцев и евреев в номера он не пускает.  Полицейский эскорт на хозяина впечатление произвел, но недостаточное. Тогда кто-то из организаторов с не менее выпученными глазами набрал на телефоне номер в Вашингтоне, сунул трубку хозяину, и после бурных протестов тон хозяина сменился, и он закончил "Да, да, конечно".

Я не в состоянии поверить, чтобы в 1986 (!) Мише Шифману на перевод из "Вы конечно шутите, мистер Фейнман" для "Науки и жизни" могли ставить такие условия.

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