Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What made O. K. Bovard a great editor was his inflexible integrity. When Bovard ordered his most famous correspondent, Paul Y. Anderson,* to stop writing for The Nation four years ago, that hardhitting reporter took the order in good part, ridiculed the suggestion "that interests which I have treated none too tenderly" had finally caught up with his boss: "Don't believe a word of it. The Post-Dispatch cannot be 'reached'-I have seen that tried often enough to know." In a gregarious profession, Bovard's aloofness has become a legend. To keep his objectivity...
Other speakers: Professor (economics) Nathaniel Waring Barnes of Columbia University; William Kenneth Anderson, Research Director for Lament, Corliss & Co.; Russell Young (Young & Rubicam Advertising Agency) ; Lee H. Bristol (Bristol-Myers Co.). President Mortimer Berkowitz of The American Weekly said darkly: "Most people do not think...
Lately Dr. Anderson and his lean young coworker, Dr. Seth Neddermeyer, have been trying to trap barytrons near the end of their ranges-that is, as they slow up from exhaustion of energy after many collisions. The two physicists have a "cloud chamber" filled with argon, helium and alcohol vapor. A particle passing through knocks ions (electrified fragments) out of the gas atoms, and the vapor condenses on the ions, making a visible track which shows up as a white line in photographs. A device called a coincidence circuit snaps the picture when the particle passes through...
...Anderson's analysis of the photograph (see cut) is as follows: the particle, weighing 240 electron units, enters the chamber near the upper left-hand corner of the picture, making a thin, sketchy white track which is slightly curved owing to a strong magnetic field maintained across the chamber. Its energy is 10,000,000 electron-volts. It passes through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about...
Evidence which does not appear clearly in the picture convinced Dr. Anderson that at the end of its trail the particle disintegrated by the emission of a positive electron...