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Last week's announcement won instant acclaim. One acclaimer was Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac who, now only 31, three years ago startled his learned compatriots by declaring that nuclear protons were simply "holes" in the circumambient electronic field. "A major ad-ance!" cried Dr. Dirac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Maxwell-Quantum Theory | 9/11/1933 | See Source »

...nights throughout the winter the Orchestra congregates in the Hub Store fitting-room. Conductor Evans, a Chicago Symphony viola player, is the only paid professional in the lot. The concertmaster is Sidney James, a handsome, white-haired chemical engineer. One of the 'cellists is a brain-specialist- Dr. Adrien Henri Pierre Eugene Verbrugghen, son of Belgian Henri Verbrugghen who used to conduct the Minneapolis Symphony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Businessmen's Orchestra | 5/22/1933 | See Source »

Cambridge's "positron" is a particle of positive electricity no heavier than the particle of negative electricity called the electron. Protons, heretofore considered the smallest unit of positive electricity, weigh 1,850 times as much as electrons. Cambridge's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac long ago declared that mathematical necessities require the existence of light-weight protons. Last year Caltech's Carl David Anderson noticed some ion tracks which implied impacts from Theorist Dirac's light protons. Before the Royal Society last fortnight, Dr. P. M. S. Blackett, 35, tall, pale member of Lord Rutherford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ultimate Particles | 3/6/1933 | See Source »

Georges Eugene Adrien Clemenceau tried to buy an automobile in Paris, but an automotive sales manager insisted on giving him one. "France owes you too much. Let me pay my part of the debt," said the sales manager. M. Clemenceau accepted the automobile and sent a check for 10,000 francs ($400) to the factory where it was made, to be distributed among the most needy workmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...meeting an exhibition of simultaneous play was staged by F. R. Chevalier '29, who scored 13 wins and one loss, and a short talk was given by Adrien Gambet '25, former president of the organization...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS PLAYERS PLAN AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE | 10/11/1927 | See Source »

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