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...anecdote which Sir James Hopwood Jeans told in Philadelphia last week when he received the Franklin Medal perhaps explains why the late great Albert Abraham Michelson dumped all his medals into out-of-the-way receptacles and why Sinclair Lewis tried to get Yale's Library to guard his Nobel Prize medal. Just before Sir James left England for his current U. S. visit he attended medal ceremonies at a small school outside Cambridge. The mayor was giving prizes to the children. To console losers the mayor announced: "When I was a schoolboy I never got a medal...
Among other notables who mourned Albert Abraham Michelson (see col. 3) was Sir James Hopwood Jeans. British mathematician. He and Lady Jeans had gone to Pasadena a fortnight ago so that Sir James could see at first hand the "red shift" (lengthening rays of light) which Dr. Hubble has observed through the Mount Wilson telescopes. Sir James has calculated that the Universe is expanding at a tremendous rate and in some far future eon will disintegrate. The lengthening of stellar rays seems to prove his thesis, which is the opposite of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan...
...audience remained, wondered what the meat was. They thought it most probable that he had adopted the idea of an expanding Universe. Other famed scientists who also have adopted it: Harlow Shapley of Harvard Astronomical Observatory; Walter Nernst of the University of Berlin. Most vehement exponent is Sir James Hopwood Jeans, British physicist...
...able scientist not so well known as Dr. Einstein also said something about the sun last week. Dr. Walter Nernst, director of the Physical Institute of University of Berlin, 1920 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, reaffirmed the "heat-death" theory of Sir James Hopwood Jeans (TIME, Jan. 5) by announcing that, from his studies in thermodynamics, he believes the sun is growing smaller, is steadily losing mass by radiation. Now only three billion years old, in ten billion years it will have shrivelled to a tiny speck. At that time the cold earth together with the other planets, will...
...banquet, invited Dr. Einstein as guest of honor. He spoke to them in German, complimented the works of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson who is remeasuring light, Mt. Wilson's Dr. Hubble who measured the red shift in starlight, and Professor Tolman who believes with Sir James Hopwood Jeans that the universe is "exploding" (TIME, Jan. 5). After having been lectured to, Dr. Einstein gave a lecture himself last week. Before a class of 30 he talked for 90 minutes. While he rolled German words about his tongue,* he scrawled figures upon the blackboard-mathematical equa- tions. When...