Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)
1958-04-01 / 4. szám
12 FRATERNITY FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN UNITED STATES GAINS NEW SCIENTIST-CITIZENS FROM HUNGARY (Reprinted from the "Federalist", periodical of the George Washington University, Washington, D. C. — Spring, 1958) (Continuation) Dr. Papp left the University in the Spring of 1952 to join Farnsworth Electric Company. There he has worked on contracts in the field of microwave detection with tube-diodes for the Applied Physics Laboratory in Silver Spring, Md., later for the Air Force; in the field of infrared image converters for the Army; in the field of image storage tubes, the latron, again for the Navy. Although he has published only one paper during these five years, much has been set down in classified and also in unclassified government reports. As head of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Farnsworth, Dr. Papp’s activities include infra-red work in secondary electron emission, photocathodes, phosphor problems, and many others. Dr. Papp became a United States citizen in 1955. He has been teaching modern physics and theoretical physics for three years at the Fort Wayne extension of Purdue University. His family joins him in gym, swimming and trampolin outings at the YMCA in Fort Wayne. George, Jr., is an “active” Indian guide at the Y. Like many Hoosiers, the Papp family has a favorite spot for holidays, a state park with an Indian name, Pokagon, 50 miles north of Fort Wayne. Dr. Papp has a good citizen’s concern with the “revival of faith in education and the appreciation of the sciences” in America. He recalls that in Hungary “mathematics and physics was a living subject, like baseball here.” He wonders if more encouragement of young student scientists through national competitions in high schools migh help. When Professor Pulvari and his family flew into the United States, they felt debilitated by the high humidity, the central heating; shocked by the immense amount of traffic — the four-lane traffic approaching bridges and tunnels; awed by the immense dimensions or spread of the cities. But these first impressions were soon put aside in the immediate concern with work. After one year in high explosive research for the Navy, Professor Pulvari deduced from a survey of needs that a lack of high sped memory devices created many scientific bottlenecks. Under an Air Force contract he worked to develop a small, portable remembering device for the Wright Air Development Center. Remembering devices are the heart of all computer control and business machines, the intelligence of which depends highly on their remembering ability and capacity. Professor Pulvari contrived a new way for electronic remembering which
