Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Heading the list of Nobel winners will be Albert Einstein who will discuss some aspects of physics. The others are Neils Bohr, physics; Hans Fischer, chemistry; Arthur H. Compton, physics; Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, physiology and medicine; Robert A. Millikan, physics; Friedrich Bergius, chemistry; August Krogh, physiology and medicine; Theodore Svedberg, chemistry; Otto Warburg, physiology and medicine; Karl Landsteiner, physiology and medicine; Edgar D. Adrian, physiology and medicine; Werner Heisenberg, physics; and Hans Spemann, physiology and medicine...
...pious layman into the profession of a spy-or rather into the British Intelligence Service. Next he was attached to the legal office of the British Admiralty. Of late years he has served as Attorney General, a post which in Britain does not carry full Cabinet rank. When Novelist Compton Mackenzie in 1932 disclosed some of the secrets of the Intelligence Service, he was promptly and successfully prosecuted by Attorney General Inskip. Since 1934, Sir Thomas has become the villain of an entire literature penned by indignant Britons who contend that an act which he put through the House...
President Cousens of Tufts, present head of the organization, will preside. Also on the committee are President Conant of Harvard, President Compton of M.I.T., and President Marsh of Boston University, who are all past or present executives of Phi Beta Kappa, Joseph E. Perry, Williams '09 and a graduate of Harvard Law School, is secretary-treasurer...
...deacon in the Baptist Church, Dr. Compton attends nearly every Sunday, is actively interested in missions, Y. M. C. A. and settlement work. Like Britain's Eddington, he sees in Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle (which avers that the behavior of electrons is unpredictable) evidence that man is not an automaton in a mechanistic universe, but a free agent responsible to his Creator. "Science can have no quarrel," says Arthur Compton. ''with a religion which postulates a God to whom men are as His children...
Sylvia Scarlett, taken from Compton Mackenzie's novel of 1918, is a story of a set of people whom the main stream of life has pushed a little to one side, sharpening and coloring them unforgettably in the process. It is made memorable by a role that almost steals the show from Miss Hepburn's androgyne: Cary Grant's superb depiction of the cockney...