Word: compton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...special conference was arranged. Dr. Charles Thomas Zahn of the University of Michigan, who had been independently working along the same line, was summoned by telegraph, arrived, reported that he was unable to confirm the Jauncey results. Zahn, however, had used a differently arranged apparatus. Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago, a onetime colleague of Jauncey's at St. Louis, pored over his experiments, pronounced them competently done but would not commit himself as to their validity. Dr. Compton added somewhat superfluously that they would be of great importance to the whole structure of modern...
...turned many an unfamiliar stone in their search for enlightenment. They will listen to Leo Wolman on the labor outlook; General Hugh Johnson on "Wages & Hours Legislation;" Colgate University's President George Barton Cutten on "Hiatus in Social Re-sponsibility;" M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Compton and Caltec's Robert Andrews Millikan on Science & Industry. For national and international information the manufacturers will look to Chairman Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Sir Wilmott Lewis, suave, ironical Washington correspondent for the London Times...
Deep Rays. Near Mohawk, Mich., the Seneca Copper Mining Co. has a mine shaft which slopes down at a 34° angle to a vertical depth of 1,600 feet. Volney C. Wilson, research assistant of the University of Chicago's famed Arthur Holly Compton, worked for three months in the shaft with a cosmic ray recorder of his own design, containing four ionization tubes. These were arranged in line so as to exclude cosmic rays shooting down the open shaft, to catch only rays boring vertically through the rock. From the surface to 1,600 feet Mr. Wilson...
...still is, a nucleus surrounded by electrons. But in the 1920's, with the powerful searchlight of relativity illuminating the atomic field, it became apparent that the picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity-that is, of matter-was not enough. Chicago's Compton (another Nobelman) showed that waves of high-frequency light could behave like particles. In 1924, Prince Louis de Broglie of France enunciated a theory that electrons could manifest themselves as waves...
Other addresses will be made by Dr. Victor S. Helser, author of "American Doctor's Odyssey," and by Dr. Karl Tayler Compton, President...