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Many say that Professor Jesse W. M. DuMond of California Institute of Technology is Science's best Mechanic. Fortnight ago international physicists at Rome inspected his multiple crystal spectrometer. Last week at Pasadena the public viewed his stereofluoroscope X-ray device...
Professor DuMond's multiple crystal spectrometer lets physicists look at electrons. The machine consists of 50 spectroscopes arranged in an arc. A crystal is placed in the range of a device and then bombarded by X-rays. The X-rays batter electrons free of their atoms. The spectrometer reveals, not exactly the electrons themselves, but splashes of energy which represent the electrons...
...settings are being made ready. Rousing climax of this element in the entertainment comes when five tons of chromium are lowered and a host of pretty girls in pale green are set to dancing before it. At another time, scores of undressed dancers with naked heels flash between glimmering crystal scimitars to Ravel's throbbing Bolero. There is also a "pageant of the ages" during which a gigantic papier-mache dinosaur lumbers across with a lady in its mouth. The dinosaur is characteristic of Producer Carroll : in the current Follies, Producer Ziegfeld has girls carried by mere elephants...
...years ago Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago aimed some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
...Professor Compton's experiments, the x-rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...