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Frederick Albert Saunders, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, was announced last night by Dr. Carl Compton, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as having been named a member of the governing board of the new Science Institute, of which Dr. Compton is the chairmnan...
...governing board is composed of three members of each of these four societies; Dr. Compton and Professor Saunders both represent the Society of Physics. During the summer a permanent, full-time executive secretary will be chosen from the board, under whose supervision the work of publication, and of the organization of smaller committees will be placed. The coats of preliminary organization, including the establishment of permanent offices, forms, and incidental expenses for the year, have been underwritten by the Chemical Foundation of New York City...
Significance. Professor Piccard's prime purpose was to determine whether cosmic rays were, as believed, ten times more powerful in the stratosphere than upon reaching the earth through the atmosphere. Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics, said in Chicago: ''Such measurements have been made before with sounding balloons, but the conditions under which Professor Piccard made his observations would be much more satisfactory." He expected the results to prove "very valuable" to science...
...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...