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...cooler. Last week these orthodox views were openly disputed by London's famed Biologist J. B. S. Haldane. Writing in the American Scientist, Haldane advanced a "new theory of the past." Haldane's theory rests on a hypothesis of relativity developed in the '30s by British Cosmologist E. A. Milne. (Most of Milne's reasoning is far too deep for anyone but astrophysicists - and Professor Haldane.) Milne suggested that time, like space, may be relative. Scientists, he said, have got themselves into a mess of contradictions by using only one time measure: the "dynamical" system, which...
...years ago Dr. Gustaf Stromberg of Mt. Wilson Observatory, an able cosmologist who wears clothes like a janitor's and plays a radio while doing telescope work, evolved a theory which would allow solar systems to be much more frequent...
...Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting place, and where, if he wished, an ichthyologist could listen to an atom-smasher and a cosmologist to a breeder of fruit flies...
Married. Sir James Hopwood Jeans, 58, famed British astrophysicist, cosmologist, popularizer (The Mysterious Universe, Through Space and Time); and Susi Hock, 24, comely Viennese organist. Sir James's U. S.-born first wife, who died in 1934, left him a fortune...
Died. Willem de Sitter, 62, famed astronomer, mathematician and cosmologist of Leyclen University; of pneumonia; in Amsterdam...