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...instructor in Astronomy; "The What and Why of Schooling Stars," Dr. P. M. Millman: "In Quest of Comets," Dr. F. L. Whipple: "Unravelling Stellar Secrets". Dr. A. J. Cannon: "The Insides of Stars". Dr. Payne: "The Worlds of Gas," Dr. R. J. Hok. Wilson Teaching Fellow: "The Chemistry of Interstellar Space." V. B. Andrews '2b instructor in Astronomy: and "The Chemistry of Evolution." Harlew Shapley. Patne Professor of Practical Astronomy and Director of the College Observatory. The last time that such a series of talks was given over the air was in 1927 when the College took open itself...
...talk Shapley pointed out that three things among the many that confuse astronomers are (1) The origin, nature, and persistence of Cosmic meteors, appearing in the earth's atmosphere, coming from interstellar space and wholly independent of the solar system; (2) The existence of vagabond stars, intergalactic tramps, at the borders of the galaxy; and (3) The groupings and streams of the galaxies throughout the metagalactic structure, where we should expect uniform individual distribution...
...according to him. Temperature of those points must be between 3,000° and 6,000° C. "If one could look into protoplasm with an eye capable of infinite magnification," he elaborated, "one might expect to see the radiogens spaced like stars, as suns in infinite miniature." The "interstellar" spaces absorb the intense heat of his radiogens, he reasons. The nucleus of his theoretic radiogen "would theoretically be a molecule of iron." Dr. Maria Takles, a Crile associate, figures four billion radiogens in a cubic centimetre of muscle...
...toward the North and South Poles." These differences made him suspect that cosmic rays were streams of electrons, particles of electrically charged matter. More upsetting to Dr. Millikan's theories of reborn matter was another suspicion: that energized electrons would probably not be foundlings from distant stars or interstellar space, would probably have originated in the Earth's atmosphere...
Robert Andrews Millikan: Eminent physicist, who with tireless zeal has studied the constitution of matter and the nature of interstellar space...