Word: compton
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...International Electrical Congress his belief that cosmic rays are the "birth cries" of atoms newly born in the cold spaces between the stars. His paper was written before he heard of a report published last week in the Physical Review by his fellow Nobel Prizewinner, Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, now in Peru. Old is the quarrel between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who calls cosmic rays the "death wails" of matter on the stars. Dr. Millikan's friend Dr. Compton last week attacked his cosmic ray theories from a new quarter...
Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sc.D...
...Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy, was elected to life membership in the Corporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along with Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. of the General Motors Corporation, Karl T. Compton, president of Tech announced yesterday...
...announced more than a year ago that he would retire this June as president of Princeton University at the end of 20 years' service, Princeton's board of trustees has sought vainly for a sufficiently distinguished successor. Two months ago University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, Nobel Prize physicist, was reported to have declined the post (TIME, March 21). The Princeton trustees have been meeting fortnightly in an effort to agree on some one else. Last week, their quest still unsuccessful, they chose one of their own number to be acting president. He was Edward Dickinson...
...Dunham '25, instructor in physics, will take part in one of the expeditions beings sent to all parts of the world this summer to study cosmic rays under the general direction of professor Compton of the University of Chicago...