Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Louis. But for most of the audience it marked the end of the "mystery" of cosmic rays, wrote finis to one of the most reverberating scientific controversies of the century. The tall, rugged man with deep-set eyes and heavy chin who was reading a paper was Arthur Holly Compton. Newshawks esteem this topflight physicist and Nobel Prizewinner of the University of Chicago for his ability to get things said without benefit of polysyllables. His address last week was understandable to anyone who knew what photons and ions are. He introduced one hybrid term of his own devising: isocosms...
First Finder. Like a good scientist Dr. Compton thought it best to begin at the beginning: "In order to place the results of the recent studies of cosmic rays in appropriate perspective, let us recall very briefly their early history. It is well known how at the beginning of the present century. . . ." At the beginning of the present century Geitel of Germany, experimenting with a quartz-fibre electroscope, noticed that for no apparent reason the air in his instrument gradually became more electrified or ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some...
...Stetson explained that there are two conflicting theories, Arthur Compton, of the University of Chicago, believing that cosmic rays are chiefly made up of electrons, and Millikan believing that they are chiefly made up of photons, bundles of light energy...
...motorcycle policeman was sufficient to convoy to their hotel home Jimmy Walker and his second wife, onetime Musicomedienne Betty Compton whom he married in the South of France.* They then read 1,400 letters and telegrams of greeting, planned his future. Possibilities included the law, the theatre, the cinema, the liquor business. That night the City of New York was gently rocked by its first earthquake since...
...check for $1,524.51, payable to Mrs. Will Rogers, beneficiary. He had forged Mrs. Rogers' signature, pocketed the money. Accountants, delving into his records, concluded that over a period of seven years he had used equally simple methods to bilk W. C. Fields, Mrs. James J. Walker (Betty Compton), Vivienne Segal and others of $300.000, relying on his careless clients not to notice. Next day in court Prisoner Kemp dazedly set the figure at about $50,000, mumbled: "I'm sorry to have caused Mrs. Rogers any trouble...