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| | Active Skim View of: John Hasbrouck Van Vleck |
 | | During the Harvard years, Van was in constant touch with John Slater, who finished a mostly experimental thesis with Bridgman at about the same time, and then left for Copenhagen to work for a year with Bohr. |
 | | As chairman of the Physics Department, Van presided over the admission-and recruitment of an extraordinary group of students in the first few years, brought back at irregular times and from the ends of the earth, mixing refugees, returning servicemen, and bright young products of the wartime accelerated courses. |
 | | One of his stratagems in cloing this was the "Van VIeck Bridge," an actual physical connection between Cruft Laboratory, where many of the applied scientists were, and the Jefferson Physics Lab. |
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