Talk:Gerald Holton

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=Gerald Holton writes: How to send you a document, a copy of the Certificate that shows I was elected in November 2003 as a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences, signed by the NAS President, Bruce Alberts. Unfortunately you have deleted this from the earlier version of my Wiki page!(I know this information is not easy to get now from the NAS). Gerald Holton, (holton@physics.harvard.edu, and 617 868 9003)

HatNote Dab ==

I added the Hatnote

For the designer of the peace symbol "☮", see Gerald Holtom.

saying in my edit summary

The substitution of N for the M in his name is common enuf that our bio is 1st G-hit for "gerald holton design", but [it] can't hurt to strengthen the association[.] (I typed the N inspite of getting his name from a book that spells it right [.)]

I now notice that Googling "gerald holton ☮" (you could only be more explicit by hearing the idiosyncratic M right!) produces a page of Holton hits, and at the bottom, under "Searches related to gerald holton ☮", "gerald holtom" as the first of 7, of which 4 were still for the physicist.
--Jerzy•t 00:59, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

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Internment - unlikely to be interned and, even if interned, almost certainly not for the duration.

It is stated that Gerald Holton escaped "having to report for incarceration for the duration, as was required for all male adult German refugees, by Prime Minister Churchill's directive." Perhaps that represents Gerald Holton's own perception of things, not corrected because he had already left for the US. This article [1] gives more detail on internment. Upon the declaration of war on 3 September 1939, some 70,000 UK resident Germans and Austrians became classed as enemy aliens. By February 1940 nearly all the tribunals had completed their work assessing some 73,000 cases. The vast majority (some 66,000) of enemy aliens being classed as Category C, exempt from both internment and restrictions. Most, but by no means all, of the 55,000 Jewish refugees who had come to the UK to escape Nazi persecution in the early and mid 1930s found themselves in Category C. Most people who were interned were released by the end of 1941. Starple (talk) 21:15, 3 August 2021 (UTC)