Oppenheimer to Deliver James Lectures in 1957

Hours after the announcement that J. Robert Oppenheimer '25 will be the 1957 William James Lecturer in Philosophy and Psychology, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy lashed out at the appointment as "what you might expect from a man of Pusey's record."

The Senator from Wisconsin speak last night at a public rally in the Boston Arena, and gave his opinion on the Oppenheimer appointment in answer to a question from newsmen.

Oppenheimer, director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, will give the biennial lectures in the spring of 1957, the University announced yesterday. He will be sponsored jointly by the departments of Philosophy and Psychology.

Declared Security Risk

During World War II, the physicist directed the Los Alamos laboratory that perfected the atomic bomb. In the spring of 1954, Oppenheimer was declared a "security risk" but not "disloyal" by a 2-1 decision of the Atomic Energy Commission.

Immediately after the ABC's decision, a unanimous vote of the Institute for Advanced Study retained Oppenheimer as director. Columbia University and the University of Oregon last year appointed Oppenheimer as a guest lecturer, but the University of Washington refused to invite the physicist to Seattle.

Oppenheimer is author of a recent book, "Science and the Common Understanding," which sets forth a theory of the complementarity of opposites in all nature. The topic of his lectures here has not yet been announced.