Word: cosmical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...string burst, due to the thinning outside air, the rate of ascent of the other four was checked. When the second bag blew up, the remaining ones hovered practically stationary until a clockwork device released a red parachute and dropped a self-charging electroscope which had been recording cosmic ray intensity all the while. Four of the five electroscopes were recovered, sent to Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...
Arthur H. Compton proved the pleasantest subject. He posed in his room and talked to the camera man almost an hour on the intensity of cosmic rays, and rocket ships. He held that in time we may be making journeys to the moon and the planets. He said that science was delayed by lack of funds and that we won't have another stratosphere flight for some time as it cost about $160,000 for a balloon. The photographer was referred to Jean Piccard who would only say that it costs "an enermous amount...
Among the Nobel Prize winners speaking in the Biological and Physical Science symposia were Arthur Holly Compton in physics and Karl Landsteiner and Frederick Gowland Hopkins in medicine. Professor Compton, who is 44 years old, is one of the world's leading authorities on cosmic rays. After being a National Research Fellow in 1919, he became an instructor at Minnesota, research physicist with the Westinghouse Electric Co., and head of the Department of Physics at Washington University. Since 1923 he has been Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and has traveled extensively around the world in pursuit...
Five weeks ago Dr. J. Clay of Amsterdam, who makes it his business to keep track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove...
...Arthur Holly Compton is best known for his (1 contributions to the field of medicine, 2 flight to the stratosphere, 3 invention of a cheaper method of steel production, 4 prominence as President of the University of Chicago, 5 researches on cosmic rays...