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The immediate effects of the Institute's work are in knowledge and in men. The
new knowledge and the ideas find their way into the worldwide communities of
science and scholarship, and the men take their part throughout the world in study,
in teaching, in writing and in discovering new truth. History teaches—and even the
brief history of the Institute confirms—that new knowledge leads to new power and
new wisdom, and alters the destiny and heightens the dignity of man.
The new knowledge itself it disseminated in many ways—through lectures and
seminars and intimate conversation, through letters and syllabi and notes. But the
primary and the formal and the decisive means is publication, which is for the scholar
both the definitive act of formulation, and the performance of his duty to his col-
leagues and to the world of science and of man. It has thus seemed appropriate to mark
this anniversary by a record of what the members of the Institute have published, a
literal record of the Institute's primary work. What has come of these ideas, what has
become of the men who have held them or discovered them, how these have molded
the present and the cast of the future, later historians may discover.
In compiling this bibliography we have limited ourselves to work done at the
Institute, and to publication in its most elementary sense, to the printed word publicly
available and generally accessible. The labor of compiling and editing this bibliog-
raphy has been entrusted to the Institute Librarian, Judith Sachs. To her, for whose
labors as Librarian all members of the Institute are grateful, we have a special debt
for preparing this volume.
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ROBERT OPPENHEIMER