One Version of the Facts : My Life in the Ivory Tower

Annotation In his engaging memoirs, One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981) and chancellor of the University of Manitoba. An accomplished physicist, he wrote the first definitive text in English on mass spectroscopy, discovered the last stable isotope (platinum), and helped create important programs at universities and at the National Research Council. He also served on numerous councils for scientific and university organizations, and rubbed shoulders with Nobel Prize winners at international conferences. With humour and modesty, Henry Duckworth recalls trends, changes, and crises he witnessed throughout his long university career. He offers his observations, his opinions, his "version of the facts," providing a special insight into critical years in Canada's university education history, as well as his own specialty, atomic research MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict MuPDF error: syntax error: invalid key in dict Cover 1 Contents 6 Preface 10 Foreword 12 1 Growing up in the Manse: 1915 to 1931 18 2 College Days: 1931 to 1937 34 3 Starting to Earn a Living: 1937 to 1940 54 4 The University of Chicago: 1939 to 1942 62 5 Wartime Service: 1942 to 1945 86 6 The University of Manitoba: 1945–46 106 7 Wesleyan University: 1946 to 1951 114 8 McMaster University: 1951 to 1965 140 9 The University of Manitoba: 1965 to 1970 228 10 Laval University: 1970–71 266 11 The University of Winnipeg: 1971 to 1981 274 12 In Retirement: 1981 to 1999 350 13 Seven Decades of Change 362 Appendix: Curriculum Vitae of Henry E. Duckworth 374 Index 378 General 378 Universities 384 In his engaging memoirs, __One Version of the Facts: My Life in the Ivory Tower__, Dr. Henry Duckworth takes readers from his student days in Winnipeg and Chicago in the 1930s to his time as president of the University of Winnipeg (1971-1981) and chancellor of the University of Manitoba. An accomplished physicist, he wrote the first definitive text in English on mass spectroscopy, discovered the last stable isotope (platinum), and helped create important programs at universities and at the National Research Council. He also served on numerous councils for scientific and university organizations, and rubbed shoulders with Nobel Prize winners at international conferences.