Letter from Leonard Rieser, Jr., Dartmouth College, to Robert Oppenheimer, Princeton University, 4 November 1958
Letter from Leonard Rieser, Jr., Dartmouth College, to Robert Oppenheimer, Princeton University, inviting him also to speak to the students of the Physics Dept.
November 4, 1958
Dr. J.R. Oppenheimer
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, New Jersey
Dear Dr. Oppenheimer:
I was very pleased to learn that you had accepted the invitation
from the Lecture Series Committee to speak at Dartmouth in March. It
is my hope that you will also speak informally on a physical topic to
the faculty and advanced students in the physics department. Actually,
I suspect that such a lecture would attract students and faculty in
related science departments, such as mathematics.
We had several lectures last year addressed to such an audience,
including one on parity by Otto Frisch. It was very successful and
established the value of such an experience for students completing
their undergraduate work. We hope your stay will be long enough to
permit such a lecture and we would, of course, arrange a time to most
easily fit your schedule. In addition, I should like to seek your ad-
vice on the general question of theoretical physics in a primarily
undergraduate college. This has an obvious bearing on our choice of
faculty which presently includes two young theorists.
I look forward to meeting you again and hope your wife will be
able to join you in your visit to the North Country.
Sincerely yours,
Leonard M. Rieser, Jr.
Chairman
LMR/DS
Text and image reproduced here with permission from the papers of J. Robert Oppenheimer, held in the manuscript division of the Library of Congress.
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