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Arthur R. von Hippel
Pages 320-326

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From page 321...
... He married Dagmar Franck, daughter of the German physicist James Franck, in 1930; the von Hippels became naturalized American citizens on April 21, 1942. They had five children, Peter Hans, Arndt Robert, Frank Niels, Eric Arthur, and Marianne Margaret.
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... He was an active supporter of the founding of the first major interdisciplinary society, the Materials Research Society (MRS) , by his MIT colleague, Professor Harry Gatos, and Professor Rustum Roy of Pennsylvania State University.
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... After grammar school, the young Arthur attended the Humanistische Gymnasium in Göttingen, for nine years, where he received a solid classical education that included nine years of Latin and six years of Greek, in addition to French and English, and an excellent background in science and mathematics. A teacher introduced von Hippel to a pre-WWI youth movement -- the Wandervogel (migrant birds)
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From page 324...
... Another model was MIT president Karl Taylor Compton, whom von Hippel considered an ideal administrator. Professor von Hippel pursued extensive studies in the fields of ferroelectrics and ferromagnetics, electric breakdown, dielectric polarization, rectifiers and photocells, gas discharges, and solid-state physics.
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... After World War II, he realized a dream when he had a log cabin built on the bank of the Swift River at the edge of the White Mountains National Forest in New Hampshire. Contact with the natural world helped him retain his realistic outlook.
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