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Nobel Prize Laureate to speak on religion, scia
BY JULIE ZUCKER
The Battalion
A 1964 Nobel Prize recipient will
speak on “The Convergence of Sci
entific and Religious Thought”
tonight at 7 in Rudder Tower 601.
Dr. Charles Townes, a Nobel
Prize recipient in physics and a pro
fessor at Berkeley University Gradu
ate Program in California, said he is
here tonight because he believes sci
ence and religion are combined.
“There is a consistency in science
and religious thought,” Townes said.
“I believe someday, science and re
ligion will converge.”
SlPPIAL
Continued from Page 1
Sippial said one of the benefits
of his new position is the office
in the Jack K. Williams Adminis
tration Building, which at one
time, belonged to the chancellor
of A&M.
“It’s a very nice office, it’s the
biggest [one] 1 [have] ever had,”
he said.
Sippial received his bachelor’s
degree in construction science
from Tuskegee University and a
master’s degree in systems man
agement from the University of
Southern California.
China
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been a problem such as in India and
the former USSR.
He pointed out that in these cas
es, political reform preceded eco
nomic growth, which led to chaos.
Caspar said it is important to realize
economic growth must bring about
reform in the government, not the
other way around.
Caspar said the problem with
United States-China relations is
that “we have combined morality,
business and politics into one pol
icy, and the results have been ter
rible confusion.”
Caspar said the relationship be
tween China and the United States
is the most important financial re
lationship in the future, but he be
lieves the relationship will continue
to be strained.
Rick Younts, senior adviser of
Asia Pacific Affairs of Motorolla Inc.,
had a different view of the United
States-China relations. He said he is
very optimistic about the future of
the relationship.
“The U.S.-China relationship over
the next 10 years will be the most im
portant relationship that the world
has seen in the last couple of hun
dred years,” he said.
Younts said one of the keys to a
successful relationship with China is
the United States must seek to better
understand China, just as China has
done with the United States.
Townes graduated from Furman
University in South Carolina. He then
went to California Institute of Tech
nology for his Ph.D. Townes taught
at Columbia University and Massa
chusetts Institute of Technology
[MIT], where he met long-time col
league and friend, Dr. Marian Scully.
Scully, a physics professor at
Texas A&M , said the department is
honored to have such a distin
guished speaker.
“He is our (scientists’) hero, who
more than anyone else has molded
what we can do with optical and
atomic molecular physics,” he said.
Scully said that besides his col
league’s honor of being a Nobel
Laureate in physics, Townes has
received high recognition for his
research with the universe and
black holes.
Scully said Townes is the first per
son to see a black hole through as
trophysics. Townes and his research
group are the first to give convincing
evidence about black holes.
“The black hole is an amazing
phenomenon,” Townes said. “Noth
ing can escape, and it is three mil
lion times as heavy as the sun.”
Scully said he hopes students will
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