Word: astrophysicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Famed Astrophysicist Sir James Jeans sounded off on pianists' "touch": "So far as single notes are concerned it does not matter how [a pianist] strikes the key, so long as he strikes it with the requisite degree of force. . . . The tone quality will be the same whether he strikes it with his fingers or even the end of his umbrella...
Supernovae are millions of times brighter than the sun-usually shedding more light than the millions of other stars in their nebula. About 15 have been recorded. Three years ago Dr. Zwicky, distinguished young Bulgarian-born astrophysicist who believes exploding stars may be a source of cosmic rays, brought the matter of supernovae to the attention of the National Academy of Sciences. He said then that supernovae probably cease to exist as ordinary stars; that protons and electrons coalesce on the surface into neutrons which, having no electric charges to repel one another, "rain" down toward the centre, pack sluggishly...
...spoke Astrophysicist Charles Greeley Abbot of the Smithsonian Institution to predict that droughts on earth will cease with 1939's storms on the sun. Said he: "A double solar cycle of 46 years appears to be particularly important in precipitation. We seem justified in expecting a severe recurrence of droughts following the year...
...Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner sold Watchdog, Ton-del, 5562 and Rathfriland, four horses given her by her intended fifth husband, London Astrophysicist Vivian Jackson, killed in a sleighing accident last month (TIME, Jan. 11). Her half-share in Russett she sold for $288 to Mrs. Jackson, who had named her co-respondent in a divorce suit...
Died- Vivian Jackson, 30, rich University of London astrophysicist and amateur steeplechaser engaged to three-times-divorced Peggy Upton Archer Hopkins Joyce Morner, 48; of injuries received when the sleigh in which they were riding crashed into a hotel portico, pitched him into a pillar; in Samaden, Switzerland...