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Britain's William Lawrence Bragg once described the atom as "like someone's head [i.e., the nucleus] with a cloud of mosquitoes [i.e., electrons] buzzing around it." Sir Arthur Eddington confessed that he pictured electrons as little red balls. But physicists have long since stopped trying to visualize the atom. As understood today the electron has become almost a dreamlike abstraction. It does not obey the laws of cause and effect. Nevertheless, even in quantum mechanics, the abstruse mathematics of the atom, the electron is assigned a constant electric charge, e, and a constant mass, m. Thus...
Harold Spencer Jones, M.A., Sc.D., F.R.S., is England's Astronomer Royal. A hardheaded, straight-thinking scientist, who refers to writings of Eddington and Jeans as "romance," he is, ex officio, director of Greenwich Observatory and responsible for Greenwich time's astronomical integrity.* The question he has heard most often in his 50-year career is: Does life exist on other worlds? Astronomer Jones set out to assemble the evidence in the case, published his conclusions last week in Life on Other Worlds (Macmillan...
...evidence for expansion (high-velocity retreat of the distant nebulae), now believes that after traveling long distances something in the nature of light may cause merely an appearance of expansion, that the universe may well be actually static. Others- notably Harvard's Shapley and England's Eddington-disagree with...
...flight experimental physicists from each of four or five U. S. universities-say Harvard. M. I. T., Caltech, Columbia, Chicago-put them to work together and then miraculously endow the new institution with the tradition and prestige of 68 years of brilliant achievement. Cambridge's Arthur Stanley Eddington, an astronomer and no Cavendish man himself, has described the laboratory as a "Mecca of physics for the Empire." Reason for Cavendish's supremacy may be simply stated. Cambridge and Oxford are the only two British universities with whopping endowments to provide the equipment necessary to attract distinguished researchers from...
Born in New Zealand, he maintained to the end the earthy gruffness of an outlander. Sir Arthur Eddington says that Rutherford used to "pull my leg" because Sir Arthur was a mere theorist. Enormously respected and revered by the Cavendish workers, Rutherford was rated by them a hard taskmaster. When he went down to London for the Thursday meetings of the Royal Society, the pace of work at Cavendish noticeably slackened...