Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When definite news of the new light at Princeton reached Pasadena, hearts burned among the staff of California Institute of Technology. Caltech was built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert...
Other New Observatories. One old and one new reason limited Harvard's tenure of fourth-biggest-telescope position. The old reason is California Institute of Technology's intention of building a 200- in. telescope in California, near Mount Wilson's 100-incher. Two factors delay Caltech: 1) Dr. Elihu Thomson of General Electric does not yet see his way toward making the necessary fused quartz disk which will be nearly as wide as a two-story building is high; nor has any other mirror-builder come forward with a sound plan for building the vast platter; 2) Caltech must wait...
Died. Russell Henry Ballard, 57, president of Southern California Edison Co., Ltd. and of California Institute Associates (backers of Caltech); of pneumonia: in Los Angeles...
...knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope was in a free balloon to 9.6 miles, a height surpassed by Professor Piccard last year, and again last week. Last fortnight Professor Erich Regener of the Institute of Technology at Stuttgart despatched a free balloon from Stuttgart. Attached were a self-recording...
...Orleans last December the A. A. A. S. meeting at Syracuse last week was intellectually and physically headless. To New Orleans did not go retiring President William Hunt Morgan of Caltech or incoming President Franz Boas of Columbia. Both were seriously ill. Last week President Boas, still ill, was in Europe. By habit the A. A. A. scientists mustered gumption for the reading of a few papers...