Word: compton
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When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...
Richard Bulger Schlatter '34 of Fostoria, Ohio is one of the two men recommended for a Rhodes Scholarship by the Massachusetts Committee on Recommendations, it was announced yesterday by Karl T. Compton, president of M.I.T. and chairman of the Committee. The final choice of the scholars will be made at a meeting of the New England Rhodes Scholarship Committee to be held Monday at the Harvard Club of Boston...
...feature of the relativity theory . . . is the absoluteness of the velocity of light. -Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington. The speed of light is perhaps the most fundamental of all the constants of nature. -Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. Speed-of-light . . . that most fundamental constant.-Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. In a universe torn to metaphysical shreds by conflicting theories as to its nature and origin, with the calm old laws of cause &; effect pushed aside by principles of indeterminance and inanimate free will, with time no longer the placid ticking of a clock but a fourth dimension, the speed of light...
President Lowell and President Compton of M.I.T. will be the honorary chairman and honorary vice-chairman respectively of the local committee. Dr. Samuel C. Prescott, of M.I.T., will be the acting chairman, Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, the vice-chairman, Professor A.L. Townsend, of M.I.T., the secretary, while Henry L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of Harvard, will act as treasurer...
...ready to start, Dr. Van de Graaff?" "I believe everything is ready, Dr. Compton...