Universities: Rebirth at Gottingen

"Heidelberg's famous for wine, women and song; Göttingen's famous for wine, women and nuclear physics," says an American student at Germany's most notably nuclear university. Before Hitler, George August University in Goötingen harbored some of the world's great nuclear names—Born. Hahn, Heisenberg—and hatched a Who's Who of U.S. science —Fermi, Compton, Teller, Oppenheimer. After the war, as one of Germany's few relatively unbombed universities, Göttingen got quickly to work restoring its reputation, but its greatest days probably lie ahead. Last week surveyors slogged through spring mud to measure Göttingen for a...