Word: cosmically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dunham '25, instructor in physics, will take part in one of the expeditions beings sent to all parts of the world this summer to study cosmic rays under the general direction of professor Compton of the University of Chicago...
According to Dunham, the research being done has no immediate utilitarian aim, and is being carried on solely in the interests of pure science. Cosmic rays are believed to be in the category with X-rays and light rays, but of considerably greater frequency and shorter wave length. "Ordinary light will penetrate glass and a few thin substances. X-rays are more penetrating, and will go through a few millimeters of lead. In contrast to both these, cosmic rays are able to pass through two feet of lead...
...Cosmic rays may be evidence of cosmic construction (Millikan theory) or cosmic disintegration (Jeans theory). They may be the neutrons which Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University found bombarded out of beryllium (TIME, March 7) and which Dr. H. C. Webster of the University of Bristol last week reported that he had knocked from boron and fluorine...
Whatever the cosmic rays are, Dr. Compton is betting the next six months of his life that he will learn enough actual facts about them better to describe the innermost construction of all matter, in the study of which he is one of the world's top-notchers...
...Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President Robert Maynard Hutchins of Chicago was persuasive. A Carnegie Foundation grant was available, and the University helped out further with equipment. So off put Distinguished Dr. Compton, not to Princeton, but to Panama and Peru on cosmic quest...