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...issue of the British journal Na ture which reached the U. S. last week, a new approach to absolute zero, suggested by several investigators, was explained by Dr. Charles Galton Darwin. He is the calm, pipe-smoking director of the Na tional Physical Laboratory, grandson of Evolution's great Charles Darwin. In effect the method is to work down as far as possible with the magnetism of molecules, then continue with the magnetism in the nuclei (cores) of the atoms themselves. In this way, researchers can plausibly expect to get down to one hundred-thousandth, possibly to one millionth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Approach to Absolute | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

Meanwhile London's universities were in even sadder case. The Government ordered the unwilling University of London out of town, dispersed its various colleges and departments to about a dozen places. One university professor refused to be driven. To his workshop, the Galton laboratory, established by famed Geneticist Sir Francis Galton, marched bearded, burly Professor Ronald Aylmer Fisher with two women assistants. When guards stopped the assistants, Professor Fisher used his fists, succeeded in storming his own laboratory. There he patched up his party's wounds, went grimly to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Back to London | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...long ago as 1931, Britain's Physicist Charles Galton Darwin, grandson of the late Charles Darwin, compared physics to "a mother who has given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to hap pen next." More closely now than ever does physics resemble a bewildered and bewildering Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Neutretto | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

Last week it became known in England that Dr. Charles Galton Darwin, mathematical physicist, distinguished grandson of Charles Darwin, would move into the Teddington palace, having been appointed N.P.L.'s new director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Darwin to Teddington | 10/24/1938 | See Source »

...other obvious notable was Dr.Charles Galton Darwin, mathematician and scientific philosopher of Christ's Col lege, Cambridge, grandson of Charles Dar win, proponent of evolution by natural selection. As president of the section on mathematical and physical sciences, Dr.Darwin delivered a neat talk on logic in science, in which he told a story from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. When Stooge Watson complimented Detective Holmes for a shrewd guess, Holmes pro tested: "No, no, I never guess. It is a shocking habit, destructive of the logical faculty. ... I could only say what was the balance of probability." Detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: B. A. A. S. | 8/29/1938 | See Source »

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