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Noted Physicist Is Guest

Of Brother In Madison By RICHARD PLUMMER A noted physicist' is visiting !rt Madison, a person dedicated to the proposition that mankind must set aside its rush for materialism and replace it with a search for true reality. Bern Porter from California, guest of his brother, Harold Port ter, pharmacist, is a native of · Houlton, graduate of Colby Coll lege and Brown University. In World War II he was re1 quested by the U. S. Government . to serve on the atomic bomb pr.ojects at Princeton, Oak Ridge and the University of California. The direction of a craftsman's guild, a west-coast cultural center and an internationally-known publishing · house have occupied him since ' 1945. He is widely known for his own researches and extensive writing

in the fields of experimental design, art, photography and literature. A consulting physicist, author and artist, his research combines . experimental scientific methods · with artistic techniques. UNTOUCHED AREAS "I have been endeavoring to . extend the principles of physics into the humanities. Porter commented. "It is time we thought of , what the physicist can do for the . common man. It is unbelievable, this world of the future for the common .man . . . whole new areas we haven't even touche~." "We have been concerned w1U1 the instruments or de:;truction rather than construction . . . there Is a new field of building, communication and expression waiting to be developed . . . build a case for the new world in which we get away from destruction and turn• our attention to common

everyday things like the Improvement of the multiplication table,

alphabet, clothing, transportation."

In 1947. he published, The Union of Science and Art, embracing the role of physics in drawing, etching, lithograph, silk screen, oil and water-color painting and photography. A second edition covered the contribution of physics to literature, communication, music, theater, poetry and architecture. Porter worked on the atomic bomb project, leaving it when the bomb fell on Hiroshima, Au- : gust, 1945. He then turned to pub· , lishing and research on combining experimental scientific methods with artistic techniques. His books are contained on the shelf I of Maine Authors at the State Library, Augusta, also several of his volumes may be found at the Colby College Library. !HAINE INSTITUTE Porter has in mind establishing a Maine Institution for Thinking, to be located near Madison. It would be a place where scienlists and those prominent in other fie lds may congregate to think and study on the problems of the world tomorrow. He stated that he believed such a center would be of great benefit to this area, for many reasons. This physicist spoke Tuesday night at a meeting of the Madison Kiwanis Club, covering several subjects, ,including the field of atomic energy and missiles. He came to Madison from Tas. mania , where he did research ~n paper manufacture from hard ,_v_o_od_- - - - - - - - - - .

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Noted P hysicist In Madison Bern Porter (right), consulting physicist, Is visiting in l)fadlson with his brother, Harold Porter (left), pharmacist. Now living in California, Bern Porter is a native of Houlton, graduate of Colby College 1and Brown University. He is widely known for his research and writing in the fields of experimental design, art, photography and literature. Porter spoke Tuesday night at a meeting of the Madison Kiwanis Club. (Sentinel Photo by Sawyer)

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