Scientists, Philosophers Gather for Conference

More than 300 eminent scientists and humanists will gather here this weekend for a conference to honor the work of two of the University's scientists--P. W. Bridgman '04, Higgins University Professor, emeritus, and Philipp Frank, biographer of Einstein.

The conference, entitled "Science and the Modern World View--Toward a Common Understanding of the Sciences and the Humanities," is sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Institute for the Unity of Science. All sessions are closed.

At each of the conference's three sessions there will be three short speeches followed by an informal discussion. Saturday morning's speakers--science historians Giorgio De Santillana and Henry Guerlac, and Harcourt Brown, Dean of M.I.T. and president of the American Academy of Science, will discuss the "Interaction of the Sciences and the Humanities"; Ernest Nagel, professor of Philosophy at Columbia, will chair the meeting and Perry G. E. Miller, professor of American Literature, will initiate the discussion.

I. I. Rabi, Nobel-prizewinning physicist from Columbia, will chair the second session at which Frank, J. Robert Oppenheimer '26 of the Institute for Advanced Study, and Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, will speak on "Modern Science and the Basic Conceptions of our Present World View."

On Sunday afternoon, Bridgman, Charles Morris, professor of Philosophy at Chicago, and Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English, will speak on "Prospects for a New Synthesis" under chairman Detlev W. Bronk, president for the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.