World War II Physicists
During the 1940s and 50s, Cornell was a huge employer of the best-and-the-brightest physicists.
Many followed or were brought to Cornell by Hans Bethe from the Manhattan Project after World War II. At least a dozen of these scientists made Cayuga Heights their home, raised kids here, played poker here (see 104 Klinewoods Road), and socialized here, even with some whose perilous links they were unaware. (Read the gripping story of Alfred Sarant, who was charged with espionage along with the Rosenbergs, while working under such prominent scientists as Hans Bethe (209 White Park Road), Richard Feynman (505 The Parkway), and one-time neighbor Phillip Morrison (514 Wyckoff Road).
A good number of Cornell's top physicists later moved to Kendal at Ithaca, the new community in Cayuga Heights for older adults, thereby earning Kendal the reputation of having the "best physics department in the country" at the time.
During the 1940s and 50s, Cornell was a huge employer of the best-and-the-brightest physicists.
Many followed or were brought to Cornell by Hans Bethe from the Manhattan Project after World War II. At least a dozen of these scientists made Cayuga Heights their home, raised kids here, played poker here (see 104 Klinewoods Road), and socialized here, even with some whose perilous links they were unaware. (Read the gripping story of Alfred Sarant, who was charged with espionage along with the Rosenbergs, while working under such prominent scientists as Hans Bethe (209 White Park Road), Richard Feynman (505 The Parkway), and one-time neighbor Phillip Morrison (514 Wyckoff Road).
A good number of Cornell's top physicists later moved to Kendal at Ithaca, the new community in Cayuga Heights for older adults, thereby earning Kendal the reputation of having the "best physics department in the country" at the time.
209 White Park Road
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505 The Parkway
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514 Wyckoff Road
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