Word: cavendish
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...Brussels was Britain's gruff, burly Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, revered director of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory. Also on hand was one of Rutherford's imaginative young workers, John Douglas Cockroft, who was at that time splitting lithium atoms by hurling protons at them. Cockroft energized his protons with high voltages obtained by transformers, rectifiers and condensers...
...greater potentialities of the Lawrence machine, had tried to persuade Lord Rutherford to acquire one. Rutherford was unimpressed. In Brussels, Cockroft asked Lawrence to give the old physicist a sales talk. Lawrence assented. Lord Rutherford declared it to be one of his principles that the equipment used at Cavendish should be developed there. Young Dr. Lawrence made a quick-witted thrust: "Sir, you use spectrometers in the laboratory every day, but they weren't invented there, were they...
...Duke of Devonshire, who acted as stand-in for King George VI at Coronation rehearsals. He will go to Hollywood to seek a movie contract, will live with Dancer Fred Astaire, whose Sister Adele is married to Mrs. Humloke's brother, Lord Charles Cavendish...
...tycoon who got his start making sheep-shearing machines for Australians and grew rich building the "Baby" Austin car. Every step of the way Herbert Austin has had to buy and pry his honors from the snug ruling class, his latest expense having been $1,250,000 presented to Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, for "physics research." That charity reputedly clinched the barony, upped the Baby Austin's maker into the House of Lords...
...signed on, to the Pacific rate, some $5 a month higher. While the officers talked of arresting the entire crew for mutiny, most of the 441 passengers settled down to await the dispute's outcome. A few voyagers, including onetime Dancer Adele Astaire and her husband Lord Charles Cavendish, started East by land...