states
no I
it's
ladies and gentlemen
my privilege to introduce the messenger lecture
mister richards the finding of the California
institute of technology
professor fineman is as this thing grows theoretical
physicist and he's done much to bring order
out of the confusion
which is what much to the spectacular development
in physics during the post-war period
among his honors and awards
i'll mention only the albert einstein award
in nineteen fifty four
this is an award which is made every third
year in which includes a gold medal and a
substantial sum of money
professor I'm engaged undergraduate working
and liked the
and he's going to have to work at princeton
he worked on the Manhattan project is constantly
here at Los alamos
he was appointed an assistant professor here
at cornell nineteen forty four
well we did not assume residents until the
end of the war
I thought it might be interesting to see what
was said about him when he was appointed at
cornell
so I searched the menace of our board of trustees
there's absolutely no record of his appointment
I added
there are however some references
%uh to the leaves of absence salary and promotions
one reference to nurses neediest isolated
on July thirty one nineteen replying the chairman
of the police department
the Dean of the arts college stating that
doctor feinman is an outstanding feature an
investigator
the who develops infrequently
in
the chair and suggested
that an annual salary of three thousand dollars
was a bit to all the distinguished faculty
members
the word
and recommended that professor time in salary
the increased nine hundred dollars
I
jeanne
and
an act of unusual generosity
it was completely disregard for the sovereignty
of the university cost up to nine hundred
dollars maybe it isn't even past
the world
you can see that we felt island professor
fineman even met
fine then took up residence here at the end
of nineteen forty five and and find highly
productive years on our factory
he left cornell in nineteen fifty eight and
was to tell that story is that ever since
I mean that's why I want to tell you there's
a little bit more about it
three four years ago he started speaking of
getting physics forces
don't ask
and the result is that it has a new dimension
to this President
it's like you're not going to run
and they represent a refreshing approach to
the subject
in the press
of the public elected there's a picture a
fine man
reforming happily on the bottle problems
my cal tech friends tell me that he sometimes
dropped in on the Los angeles night spots
in takes over the work of the driver
this is your client tells you there's a distinction
another is special these is safe cracking
for
what lessons that the he wants would allow
states the secret is fat women
remove the secret document left without saying
guess who
I could tell you about that time did he learn
Spanish before he went to give a series of
lectures in brazil
overruled
this gives me enough decision about that and
I think that's what he's saying that I'm delighted
to welcome
the President trying to practice for now
the general populace
it's the nature of physical law
and it's topic for tonight is the author of
the patients
an example would be the law
think it's fine
it's not but in the infrequent occasions when
I've
since called the fundamental threat to play
the bomb goes on
he introduced another seems to find it necessary
to mention that I also think the radicals
this
I believe that's probably %uh that we respect
the arts more than the sciences
the office of the renaissance
said that demands
main concern should be for men
it's not about some other things of interest
in the world
even the oddest appreciate some that
and the ocean waves
the March of the start to close the heavens
and there is some reasons and the for of other
things some time
as we look into these things
we did a study from letter from their recommendations
but there's also
the rhythm and a pattern between the phenomenon
of nature
we didn't have time to the eye but only to
the idea of for analysis
hundreds of the rhythms and patterns which
we hope to people on earth
what I want to talk about in a series of elections
it's
so the general characteristics of the physical
and that's the fundamental level if you will
of hard it's probably a little of both
on that stump
really I'm talking about is nature
I've seen as a result of detailed analysis
but on the beach
most full general formerly the major or placement
we wish to speak about
that's what the topic of defense to become
through philosophical the to the consul general
but there are persons Los angeles generalities
that everybody can understand him
and it's considered to be some the philosophy
if you
how about I would like
so the
very bottom or special and
I would like to be understood in an honest
way a lot of them in a very latest on the
stand
and so if you don't mind I'm going to try
instead of the only the generali in this first
like an example of physical all
so I do have at least one example of the things
about which I'm speaking generally
that's right yeah I can you eat this example
again and again to give an instant
to make a reality out of something
which would otherwise be too abstract
now I've chosen for my special example to
the court
to tell you about the theory of gravitas on
those grounds
why I chose gravity I don't know
whenever I kill you would ask the same question
actually it's a
with one of the first great love to be discovered
I'm not have an interesting history
you might say yes but then I thought that
I would like to get something about those
times more modern science
no reason to happen not more not armed
modern science is exactly in the same condition
as the discoveries of the law of out of patience
it is all the more recent discovery that we
would be talking
