Word: caltech
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there anyone who still talks about the materialism of science?" wrote Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's famed physi cist. "Rather does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation...
Weather Is a Weapon. The American military weather staff has many secret techniques in addition to the analogue. Head man in Britain is a professional army officer of 34 who studied at Caltech, now has on his staff one of his former professors. Their coordinated report is the first thing Major General Frederick L. Anderson, U.S. Deputy Chief of Air Operations, demands each morning. The head weatherman is also attached to the Supreme Allied Commander's headquarters and, in daily conferences with the British, contributes to the master report of Army, Navy and Air Forces experts for General Eisenhower...
White-haired Dr. Ehrenhaft commands scientific respect: he was formerly director of the famed Physical Institute of the University of Vienna. He is also a noted heretic. In 1910 he tangled with Caltech's brilliant Robert Andrews Millikan, then a young professor at the University of Chicago, who had just isolated and measured the electron. Ehrenhaft said that he himself had isolated electrical particles of various sizes, many of them smaller than the electron. Millikan demolished Ehren-haft's proofs, won the Nobel Prize...
...does a spider stretch its legs? That question is an old zoologist baffler. Spiders have no leg-stretching muscles, yet they have an unquestioned ability to unflex all eight pedal extremities. A Caltech biologist, after long study, has finally solved the riddle: the answer is blood pressure...
...millionths of an inch (TIME, Aug. to, 1942). The man who taught most of them the technique is a onetime Arctic explorer (who sailed with Peary) named Russell W. Porter. His amateur grinding has made him so expert that he is now a consultant on the polishing of Caltech's famed 200-in. Mt. Wilson telescope. Since 1926 Porter and an enthusiastic partner, Editor Albert G. Ingalls of the Scientific American, have made telescope-making a worldwide hobby; their stargazing clubs now stretch from the U.S. to Java...