Samuel Cabot on Whitehead

"Weisskopf so far has made a conspicuous failure with his apparatus, and I fear that he is a pure romancer with a supreme mastery of the art of lying. I feel, however, that it is perhaps a little premature to make a final condemnation of him."



“I have had occasion since last writing you to modify my views about Weisskkopf’s
failure so far. He very foolishly attempted his experiments in a place which would have been dangerous had he got a flight… he was condemned to disappointment from the beginning.”

"Whitehead left Boston in the spring of 1897 when the initial funds supporting his work were exhausted. Cabot hoped eventually to rehire him, but Whitehead'S subsequent moves to Buffalo and Pittsburgh made this impossible."