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Under the Auspices of the Aristotelian Society of Marquette University
By Henry Margenau, Ph.D.
MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1958
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Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 58-9679
COPYRIGHT, 1958 BY THE ARISTOTELIAN SOCIETY OF MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
PRINTED IN U.S.A.
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Prefatory
The Aristotelian Society of Marquette University each year invites a scholar to deliver a lecture in honor of St. Thomas Aquinas. Customarily delivered on a Sunday close to March 7, the feast day of the society's patron saint, the lectures are called the Aquinas lectures.
In 1958 the Aquinas lecture "Thomas and the Physics of 1958: A Confrontation" was delivered on March 2, in the Peter A. Brooks Memorial Union of Marquette University, by Henry Margenau, Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy, Yale University.
Born in Bielefeld, Germany, in 1901, Professor Margenau studied at the Teacher's College, Herford, Germany. He received his B.A. degree from Midland College, Nebraska, in 1924, his M.S. degree from the University of Nebraska, in 1926, and his Ph.D. from Yale, in 1929.
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He joined the Yale faculty as instructor in physics in 1928, studied at Munich and Berlin 1929-30 on a Sterling Research Fellowship, was promoted to assistant professor at Yale when he returned, became full professor in 1946. He was appointed the first Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics and Natural Philosophy in 1950.
During World War II, Professor Margenau worked in micro-wave theory, particularly duplexing systems, the devices that make it possible to use a common antenna in radar for both sending and receiving operations. He has made important contributions to physics in his work on spectroscopy and nuclear physics, and the discharge theory.
Professor Margenau is President of the Philosophy of Science Association; a member of the governing board of the Association of Philosophy of Science and of Sigma Xi, and a trustee of Connecticut College for Women. He has been an associate editor of the Journal of the Philosophy of Science (1933), of the American Journal of Science (1943) and the Review of
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Modern Physics (1954). He is a fellow of the American Physics Society and of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
He has been visiting lecturer at the University of Washington, University of California, New York University; Philips Lecturer at Haverford College; Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg, Germany; Hill Foundation Professor at Carleton College, Joseph Henry Lecturer at Washington, D.C. and Remsen Bird lecturer at Occidental College. In 1957 he was appointed national visiting scholar by Phi Beta Kappa.
He was honored by Michigan State University in May, 1955 when it presented him with its Centennial Award for his work in physics and philosophy. He received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from Carleton College in 1954 and an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Nebraska in 1957.
Professor Margenau has served as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission, the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the
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National Bureau of Standards, the Argonne National Laboratory, the Rand Corporation of California and a number of industrial firms. He has been a staff member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and the Radiation Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is the author of Foundation of Physics (with R. R. Lindsay) (New York, Dover Publications, 1957); Mathematics of Physics and Chemistry (with G. M. Murphy) (Princeton, Van Nostrand, 1956) 2nd edition; The Nature of Physical Reality (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1950); The Nature of Concepts; and almost 150 scientific and philosophical articles in learned journals.
To these the Aristotelian Society takes pleasure in adding Thomas and the Physics of 1958: A Confrontation.
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Thomas and the Physics of 1958: A Confrontation
I
LAST July after attending a scientific meeting, I found myself stranded in Rome between planes for one glorious Sunday morning. The sun was bright and the eternal city beckoned the weary traveler with all its charms. Thus I decided to take a bus to Vatican City and to refresh the memory of previous visits to St. Peter's in the scant two hours at my disposal. On entering the Cathedral and looking about, surrounded by the splendid architecture of the basilica and the treasures of centuries, I felt oppressed and overwhelmed, for I had neither the time nor the competence to appreciate St. Peter's in its totality. My frustration was aggravated by the
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noise of tourists, by the distracting activities of busybodies scurrying to and fro among the tombs and altars. Under these circumstances I made a decision which restored my equanimity: I decided to ignore the total effect, forcing myself to limit attention to a few details. I recalled, for instance, the great contributions of Michelangelo and was able to enjoy and value the architectural plan of the cross, the famous dome, the beautifully sculptured Piet in the first small chapel near the entrance. But I saw almost nothing else.
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