Stuart schram biography

Stuart Reynolds Schram was a Minnesotan who made his way to Paris, an Army nuclear physicist who became an expert in French political history, and a mind wide awake in a world remade by war and its cold aftermath.

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Schram was born in Excelsior, Minn., on Feb. 27, 1924, the son of a dentist and the grandson of a railroad engineer. He received an undergraduate degree in physics in less than three years from the University of Minnesota and was drafted into the Army, where he worked in Chicago on developing an atomic bomb as part of the Manhattan Project.

He received his doctorate from Columbia in the political behavior of French Protestants, completing his research in France.

By the late 1950s, having worked on the Manhattan Project, published scholarly works in French and German, and taught himself Russian and Japanese, he turned his considerable intellect to a divisive and mysterious subject far across the globe and accessible to the West almost solely through written wor