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John N. Bahcall, Richard Black Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, has been awarded the 2003 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics by the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The Franklin Institute cites astrophysicist Bahcall and co-honorees Raymond Davis, Research Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania, and Masatoshi Koshiba, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Tokyo, for “work that led to an understanding of neutrino emission from the sun.”

George Dyson, Director’s Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study, will speak on "Von Neumann’s Universe: 1903-2003" on March 6 at 4:30 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the Institute campus.

Dyson will discuss the work of mathematician John von Neumann (1903-1957), who joined the faculty of the Institute for Advanced Study in 1933. Says Dyson, "Few mathematicians have contributed both to mathematics and its applications across such a wide range of fields."

Harry Woolf, the Director of the Institute for Advanced Study from 1976-87 and subsequently Professor-at-Large at the Institute, died at his home in Princeton on January 6, 2003.

Harry Woolf was born in New York City on August 12, 1923. After serving with the United States Army in World War II and receiving three Bronze Stars, he obtained B.A. (1948) and M.A. (1949) degrees from the University of Chicago in the fields of mathematics, physics, and history; and his Ph.D. (1955) from Cornell University in the history of science.

Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano, will perform November 20 and 22 at 8:00 p.m. and November 24 at 4:00 p.m. in Wolfensohn Hall on the campus of the Institute for Advanced Study. He will play works by Beethoven and Schubert on a specially built copy of an 1816 fortepiano. The concert is sponsored by the Institute’s Artist-in-Residence Program.