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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by subjecting a pinch of beryllium to the emanations of the radioactive gas radon) he bombarded a bit...
Meanwhile, the Hahn report must have brought commingled pleasure and discomfiture to his colleague, crusty old Physicist Johannes Stark, who heads the Reich Physical-Technical Institute. Johannes Stark whoops up the Nazi idea that physical experiment is better than theory, regards theory as "Jewish" in spirit. Hahn's high...
Carnegie Institute of Technology Symphony (Sat. 1:30 p. m. MBS) starts its fourth year of broadcasting with selections from Bach, Brahms. Players: 80 students, 24 of them coeds.
Plans for the meeting were formulated by a group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, and Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of Technology, will preside.
"Exploring the Himalayas and Their Foothills for Traces of Early Man" will be the subject of a free, public lecture tomorrow night by Dr. Helmut deTerra, noted anthropologist, at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue at 8 o'clock.