Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observatory mathematicians today brought support to the statistics by which Charles G. Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., believes he has shown that there are important periodic changes in the sun's radiation, predictably affecting the earth's weather...
...believed that the University statistical analysis eliminates one of the principal grounds of dispute over Dr. Abbot's findings, based on years of regular observations of solar radiation at stations scattered in different parts of the world...
...Abbot found in his tables periods of 7, 8, 9, 3-4, 11, 21, 25, 34, 39 1-2, 46, and 68 months, in changes of solar radiation. Sterne finds that three of these periods may be attributable to statistical error,--those of 7 months, 8 months, and 34 months. But the remaining seven periods found by Dr. Abbot are not attributable to statistical error according to Sterne. The Harvard mathematician found that the odds against these seven periods being purely statistical error are 30,000 to 1, or higher...
Died. Frederick Abbot Stokes, 82, founder (1881) and president (since 1890) of Frederick A. Stokes Co. (book publishers); after long illness; in Manhattan. Some of the authors his firm introduced: James Branch Cabell, Louis Bromfield, Percival Christopher Wren...
Died. Sonyu Otani, 53, onetime chief abbot of the Honganji sect of Japanese Buddhists; in 1937-38 Minister of Overseas Affairs; head of the Japanese-controlled North China Development Co.; of pneumonia; in Kalgan, China...