John DiMoia: Graduate Research on Korea
I'm not sure if what I can tell you will interest you, but I know of a number of Princeton-Korea connections, largely through the legacy of scientific and technical exchange between the two countries. I don't have a lot of pictures, but more typically, documents, for the following areas:
a) Don Horning: Head of Princeton Chemistry Department, and JFK's / LBJ's science adviser in the early to mid-1960's. Played a siginifcant role in helping to get USAID funding for KIST, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, in 1965 (now part of KAIST).
b) Sam Moffett: Lived in Pyongyang through 1934 as part of an American Missionary family; had taught at the seminary for years--is emeritus there now--and can probably tell you a lot more about Princeton-Korea connections going back almost a century. He probably has a phone number at the seminary where he keeps an office. I also have his e-mail if you want to try to reach him.
c) "Benjamin" Lee: Korea's "Oppeinheimer," a particle physicist, and probably the first Korean at the Institute for AS (early 1960's). Died in a car accident in 1977, and was rumored to have worked on Korea's atomic project in the mid-1970's (see Don Oberdorfer's book for more). The rumors are apocryphal, but have a currency in Korea because of the circumstances of his death.
d) Henry Ayrer: Princeton chem professor--had a lot of Korean grad students, and later went to the University of Utah. A number of the post-Korean war chemists worked and trained under him in the 1950's and 1960's.
e) Herbert Alyea: Helped to revise the high school chem curriculum after the Korean War.
f) Dr. Yungsik Kim: at SNU, former head of PHPS and my sponsor, was at Princeton in the late 1970's. Can probably tell you more about grad alums of his generation.
g) There's also a new book on the North / Kim Il Sung (Under the loving care of the fatherly leader) written by an alum who might know of further connections.
If any of this is of interest to you, let me know, and I can tell you more. I can be reached through this e-mail and at (010 5528 2866, 서울).
John DiMoia, jdimoia@princeton.edu
[current Princeton graduate student]
a) Don Horning: Head of Princeton Chemistry Department, and JFK's / LBJ's science adviser in the early to mid-1960's. Played a siginifcant role in helping to get USAID funding for KIST, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, in 1965 (now part of KAIST).
b) Sam Moffett: Lived in Pyongyang through 1934 as part of an American Missionary family; had taught at the seminary for years--is emeritus there now--and can probably tell you a lot more about Princeton-Korea connections going back almost a century. He probably has a phone number at the seminary where he keeps an office. I also have his e-mail if you want to try to reach him.
c) "Benjamin" Lee: Korea's "Oppeinheimer," a particle physicist, and probably the first Korean at the Institute for AS (early 1960's). Died in a car accident in 1977, and was rumored to have worked on Korea's atomic project in the mid-1970's (see Don Oberdorfer's book for more). The rumors are apocryphal, but have a currency in Korea because of the circumstances of his death.
d) Henry Ayrer: Princeton chem professor--had a lot of Korean grad students, and later went to the University of Utah. A number of the post-Korean war chemists worked and trained under him in the 1950's and 1960's.
e) Herbert Alyea: Helped to revise the high school chem curriculum after the Korean War.
f) Dr. Yungsik Kim: at SNU, former head of PHPS and my sponsor, was at Princeton in the late 1970's. Can probably tell you more about grad alums of his generation.
g) There's also a new book on the North / Kim Il Sung (Under the loving care of the fatherly leader) written by an alum who might know of further connections.
If any of this is of interest to you, let me know, and I can tell you more. I can be reached through this e-mail and at (010 5528 2866, 서울).
John DiMoia, jdimoia@princeton.edu
[current Princeton graduate student]
posted by George Corser at 3:26 AM
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