¶ Fuller, R.B.: Meeting with Fernandez-Moran (1)
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Bill Lear had arranged for RBF to meet (fnu) Fernandez-Moran, Director of the Fermi Laboratory, University of Chicago. This was also the site of RBF’s one-day meeting with Cyril Stanley Smith in 1950. RBF also recalled that Fernandez-Moran was at MIT at the same time RBF was-- 1955. At the invitation of Fernandez-Moran RBF met with him and his top people in the Chicago Laboratory, from 8.30 - 10.30 a.m., 5 Apr’73.
“They showed me everything they had-- the largest super-conductor in the world, their laser diamond cutter, absolute zero conditions with no energy loss at all. There was a man named Wolf who had won the Scott Medal in Philadelphia and was the head of the electron microscope work in the laboratory. Wolf was the top mathematician at Cambridge. Fernandez-Moran and Wolf said that RBF’s mathematical discoveries were really confirmed by the latest developments in nuclear physics. They said that Fuller ranked with Einstein and Dirac as the only other two men whom they knew in their lifetime to make original mathematical discoveries of such significance. (They said Dirac was as mean as was Einstein modest and generous.) They ranked me with Einstein and Dirac as most important personal”
