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...heard a story concerning Sir Arthur Eddington that may have a grain of truth. Sir Eddington had entered Sever Hall and was looking about rather bewildered, until his eye fell on a bellboy stationed there. he approached the bellboy and announced. "I am Sir Arthur Eddington...
...bellboy was surprised but managed to stammer "Yes, Sir." and smile pleasantly. Sir Eddington looked even more bewildered than before...
...subway thinks of himself as taking a much livelier interest in science than his grandfather-in-the-buggy ever did. And though pure scientists may snort at this "interest," it is a fact that modern readers like to read about science. Books-about-science by such popularizers as Eddington, Jeans, Russell, Sullivan and Wells are widely read, sometimes even become bestsellers. That books-about-scientists might also have a popular appeal was proved by Paul de Kruif's Microbe Hunters. Last week Author-Naturalist Donald Culross Peattie took a leaf from de Kruif's notebook, published a book...
...heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington, Lemaitre, Hubble, De Sitter in 1,000 exasperated words...
Other Harvard candidates: Astronomer Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington (Cambridge); Historians Edward Samuel Corwin (Princeton) and Michael Ivanovich Rostovtzeff (Yale); Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung (Technische Hoschschule, Zurich); Anthropologist Bonislaw Malinovsky (London); Philosopher Hu Shih (National University of Peiping...