Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anderson discovered the positive electron in 1932 and is now a Nobel Prizeman. In 1934, in an inconspicuous footnote, he hinted at the possible existence of a new particle. The dilemma which confronted him then was a choice between theory and observation. He was studying electrons which occur in cosmic rays. Such electrons are supposed to behave according to the Bethe-Heitler theory, which ascribes certain penetrating powers to electrons of certain velocities. Dr. Anderson's data showed that electrons did conform up to energies of 300,000,000 volts. Above that energy level there appeared...
...August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons...
...particularly significant of the modern age. It is a conglomerate and representative collection of works generally in blank verse, blank rhyme, and blank sense, submitted by thousands of residents of Boston and vicinity. At first it appears like a dull, almost unreadable series of names and numbers. The cosmic significance and literary value does not become evident until the reader has become experienced, and usually results in symptoms not unlike an aching in the head and eyes. It shows a tendency towards the method of expression of Gertrude Stein...
...belongs to a dozen reputable scientific bodies, including astronomical, physical, optical, geophysical and radio engineering societies. His colleagues have voted him an asterisk in American Men of Science for distinguished research. At present a research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he has actively developed the new science of cosmic-terrestrial relations, ably popularized his specialty in Man and the Stars, and in Earth, Radio and the Stars. Last week he published Sunspots and Their Effects,* a simply written summary of what is known and what may be ventured on an admittedly speculative basis...
...William Krumbein with Down to Earth. Pioneer Lemon, who thus has the distinction of starting a whole popularization movement within his university, now plans to write a few serious publications to satisfy sticklers among his colleagues, spend the rest of his life composing "funny books" like From Galileo to Cosmic Rays-one of them, soon to be published, a breezy discussion of atom-smashing...