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...Millikan, the first boss of modern Caltech, who discovered the cosmic ray and first measured the charge of the electron. Nobel Laureate Thomas Hunt Morgan unlocked the mysteries of the chromosome, and Richard Tolman helped prepare the way for the modern theory of chemical-reaction rates. Richard Badger's rule described the relationship between the vibration and size of two-atom molecules. Through his work on the red and yellow pigments of such plants as carrots and tomatoes, Laszlo Zechmeister has determined some of the molecular configurations that are effective precursors of vitamin...
...leader in basic research on tooth growth and structure, Dr. Sognnaes has made intensive studies of the enamel of teeth, using chemical analysis and the electron microscope...
...standard TV tube, the picture is formed by a slim beam of electrons scanning back and forth across the phosphor on its front face, like a garden hose washing a wall. The Willys tube works on the same general principle, but it has no large empty space. It is made of two glass plates an inch or so apart, with a vacuum between. The electron beam enters from an upper corner. The electrons move horizontally between the glass sheets and stream past metal "deflection plates...
...these plates carries the proper electrical charge, it deflects the electron beam downward. On their way down the electrons pass horizontal deflection plates and are turned sharply against the forward glass plate, which carries a picture-forming phosphor. When the voltage on both sets of deflection plates is changed simultaneously, the electron beam scans the phosphor, sweeping across it and producing a TV picture...
...even more radical flat tube under development by General Electric Co. gets rid of the vacuum, and it has no electron beam either. It consists of a sheet of "electroluminescent" phosphor that glows when it is excited by an electrical voltage. The phosphor is sandwiched between a matrix of horizontal and vertical wires. If there are 500 running in each direction there will be 250,000 points at which wires cross. These intersections can be made to glow by impressing the proper voltage on the wires. If the voltages are changed rapidly, the spot of light scans the screen, forming...