Word: comptons
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Dean Hanford was also in the group, as were Professor Julian L. Coolidge '95, former master of Lowell House; Karl T. Compton president of M. I. T.; William H. Claflin '15, treasurer of the College; and Arthur D. Nock, acting chairman of the Society of Fellows...
Also representing the College as pall bearers are Dean Hanford, Julian L. Coolidge '95, former master of Lowell House, William H. Claflin '15, treasurer of the College, and Arthur D. Nock, acting chairman of the Society of Fellows. The final name on the list is that of Karl T. Compton, President of M.I.T...
...Arthur Holly Compton (1927), keen, handsome successor to Millikan at the University of Chicago, who first showed experimentally that light is composed of discrete particles as well as waves; better known now for his study of cosmic rays...
...Clinton Joseph Davisson (1937), thin, soft-spoken electrophysicist at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York, who first showed (complementing Compton) that electrons are not purely particles but have properties of very short waves...
Author of this plan was Harvard's President James Bryant Conant. President Conant and a fellow member of the three-man committee that had cleared up the rubber mess, M.I.T.'s President Karl Compton, joined in warning the nation that it could no longer delay clearing up its college manpower mess. Taking issue with Army men who had declared that all students were destined for the armed forces, they pointed to the urgent need for experts in war industry. Said President Compton: "My own experience with the scientific program of the Government and the technical problems...