Richard Rhodes Quote
Was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the miracle of a compass his father showed him excited him so much, he remembered, that he trembled and grew cold. It seemed to him then that there had to be something behind objects that lay deeply hidden.624
Richard Rhodes
Was slow to speak, but he was not, as legend has it, slow in his studies; he consistently earned the highest or next-highest marks in mathematics and Latin in school and Gymnasium. At four or five the miracle of a compass his father showed him excited him so much, he remembered, that he trembled and grew cold. It seemed to him then that there had to be something behind objects that lay deeply hidden.624
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Rhodes has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. Rhodes is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects, including testimony to the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.