Word: gamma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believes. But, as with uranium this may be a process of five billion years, the changes are imperceptible. At Kelly Field, Tex., Dr. Millikan sent up kites, sometimes as high as ten miles, with automatic machines attached which detected rays more powerful even than the X-rays or the "gamma" rays of radium. These rays did not come from the sun, because they were active night and day. Apparently they came from space, and may be the exciting cause of all radioactivity...
...symposium this evening is the which will be given during the winter under the auspices of the Harvard chapter of the Gamma Alpha, the National graduate scientific society. The next symposium will be held early in December and will be on the subject of "Sound". The speakers will be Professor F.A. Saunders, of the department of physics, Dr. A.T. Davison '06, associate professor of music, and Professor G.H. Parker '87, director of the Zoological Laboratory at the University...
...meeting has been arranged by the Harvard chapter of Gamma Alpha, the national graduate scientific society, and will be open to all members of the University...
...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in colleges of liberal arts, announced yesterday the election of seven of the ten highest ranking students from the Senior class in the Engineering School to the society. The men elected were: George Hay Bascom 4E.S. of Sparkill, N. Y., Robert Brandt 4E.S. of Jamaica Plain, Richard Jenney 4E.S. of Stony Brook, Bertram Wellman 4E.S. of Springfield and Charles Reimar Wohrman 4E.S. of Sarremaa Esthonia...
...Gamma chapter of the Tau Beta Pi fraternity, an honorary engineering society corresponding to the Phi Beta Kappa in liberal arts colleges, elected an advisory board of four graduate members at the first meeting of the season held Wednesday night. The board consists of Albert Palmer '23, elected for four years; M. S. Bromwell '23, elected for three years; J. G. Peter 1G.E.S., elected for two years; and Charles Weller '23, elected for one year. It was also decided to send President E. P. Nelson 4E.S. as a delegate to the national convention of the fraternity to be held soon...