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...brilliantly productive in the early stages of an experiment, tends to grow bored and look for something else when the research reaches a stage where long routine labor is in prospect. He once, it is now known, had the Raman Effect** in his apparatus, trembling on the verge of detection, but he did not detect it. The phenomenon was discovered in 1928 by Physicist Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman of India, who received the Nobel Prize in 1930. In his humbler moments, Wood admits that, even had he discovered the phenomenon, he did not have the theoretical background which would have conveyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Prince | 6/20/1938 | See Source »

Whether or not the meet concluded promptly at the designated hour the local correspondent did not report. He said he had been unable to detect any Harvard entrants and came home after an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Model Airplanes Sail Through Breeze While Mob of Witnesses Packs Field | 6/6/1938 | See Source »

Technically known as a mass spectrometer, Dr. Nier's instrument is designed to detect the presence of rare isotopic forms and also to give the most accurate measures even made of the relative abundance of different isotopes present in an element...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Discovery in Lead Structure Draws Veil from Earth's Age | 6/3/1938 | See Source »

American Optical Co. (Southbridge, Mass.) last week announced a new trick to detect fakers who claim eye injuries, expected the trick to be of interest to insurance companies and industrial corporations. The gadget makes use of polarized light, which is light filtered so that it vibrates in only one plane. If light filtered through a polarizing crystal encounters a second crystal whose cleavage plane* is turned perpendicularly, it cannot get through. But if the second crystal is rotated until the cleavage plane is parallel to the light waves, the light is then transmitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eye Trick | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...thing, they can detect an incipient case of measles by applying a blue black stain called nigrosin, which has a special affinity for measles virus, to a specimen of mucus from the nose or throat of anyone suffering from a sore throat. If he is coming down with measles, the virus can be seen under the microscope as dark dots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Measles Year? | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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