Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie...
...Sullivan. Now and then physicists on one battlefront or another pause to deliver philosophical interpretations. Thus on the mathematical front Dr. Planck, now an enthusiastic Nazi, year ago published a book on the nature and limitations of physical science. On the experimental front pious Dr. Millikan, who believes the cosmic rays are by-products of the creation of matter in interstellar space, argues that "the Creator is still on the job," that Science and Religion do not conflict. Dr. Compton has lately been brought to a similarly reverent attitude by the "free will" behavior of electrons and photons. But there...
Awards of $36,200 to members of the Harvard faculty for purposes of research on subjects ranging from chimpanzees and department stores to cosmic rays, are announced today by the Corporation. There are 42 awards supplied by funds established by the late William F. Milton '58, and Joseph H. Clark...
...experiments are based upon a generally accepted theory that the cosmic rays (high speed electrons, etc.), which are traveling toward the earth, cause a slight disintegration of the nuclei of the atoms of a substance through which they pass. The collision of a high speed electron with the nucleus knocks electrons out of it. The precipitation of these minute nuclear particles is known as a "shower...
...believed that there are several types of cosmic ray particles, in addition to the high speed electrons, which enter our atmosphere from space. Millikan holds that photons, which also enter our atmosphere from without but unlike the electrons leave no trace of their passage, collide with the nuclei of inolecules in the air and cause a certain amount of disintegration of those nuclei. A shower would then be produced similar to those of the high speed electrons...