Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Langmuir's work which earned the award was not confined to 1932. And ready to dispute such a title would be the friends of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. 1927 Nobel Prize winner, who traveled 50,000 mi. in 1932 researching the cosmic...
...talk Shapley pointed out that three things among the many that confuse astronomers are (1) The origin, nature, and persistence of Cosmic meteors, appearing in the earth's atmosphere, coming from interstellar space and wholly independent of the solar system; (2) The existence of vagabond stars, intergalactic tramps, at the borders of the galaxy; and (3) The groupings and streams of the galaxies throughout the metagalactic structure, where we should expect uniform individual distribution...
...other that his is the only mind which can be proved to exist, and therefore that his actions can have no effect on other minds, or that his mind is universal to such a degree that all which is important to him is important to all. From such a cosmic attitude the fact that poor bookworms suffer from painter's colic is negligible. In his underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality; a modest bid, for his admirers can never penetrate his anonymity. The difficulty is that in taking a philosophic attitude in dealing with common property...
Honored. Mrs. Elias Compton, by an LL. D. from Western College for Women (Oxford, Ohio) for being mother of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's President Karl Taylor Compton, Nobel Prizeman Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago and Economist Wilson Martindale Compton; Dr. Roberts Andrews Millikan (cosmic ray opponent of Arthur Holly Compton), by the Outstanding Service medal of the Roosevelt Memorial Association; Journalist Walter Lippmann, by appointment as Chancellor of Union College (Schenectady, N. Y.); Author Stephen Vincent Benét, by $500 first prize in the O. Henry Memorial Prize for a story, "An End to Dreams...
...Millikan's conception of cosmic rays suits his optimistic temperament. He believes the rays are evidence of the Universe's continual physical regeneration. The Compton view, at first inspection, leaves uncontroverted the evidence that the Universe is blazing to chaos. But there may be alternative interpretations, whether or not the forthcoming Millikan observations of cosmic rays coincide with those just collected by Dr. Compton. Interpretations, twinkled Dr. Millikan last week, "will come up later...