Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mighty Electron- Dr. Birkhoff, who believes that esthetics is closely linked to mathematics and once read some mathematical poetry of his own composition at an A. A. A. S. convention, was elected next year's president of the Association...
...Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"-the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron. The disturbance created in the fluids by a particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...
...valedictory address Karl Taylor Compton gave a discourse on "The Electron: Its Intellectual and Social Significance" in which, as a lesson in the ultimate value of research in pure science, he pointed out that the invisible electron, once a figment in the mind of physics and later the plaything of a few pioneers, is now the ubiquitous slave of mankind...
...edge so that two beams fall on a photoelectric cell. If in the telescope the star image gets off the cross-wires, the two beams become unequal. The proper adjustment is then made by a mechanism in which the photoelectric current is amplified one quintillion times by a Zworykin electron multiplier...
Robert Andrews Millikan, who measured the electric charge of the negative electron, won a Nobel Prize in 1923. Visibly moved was grey-haired Dr. Millikan last week when he heard that his young co-worker was to join him in the highest honor that Science can bestow. Asked by newshawks to say something about his "outside interests," Nobelist Anderson grinned: "In my younger school days my ambition was to become a track star, a high jumper. But it didn't work, and now my hobby is tennis. I just couldn't jump high enough...