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Professor Gerard Pieter Kuiper found that Wolf 424 has an unusual "very late M-type" spectrum which indicates that the star is 50,000 times less luminous than the sun. Its apparent magnitude is 11.8, which is about six magnitudes be low the limit of naked-eye visibility. Comparison of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Wolf 424 | 5/23/1938 | See Source »

Dr. Stern declared that the red giants appeared to be chemically different from any other known substance. Their biological function remains obscure. But the red color seems to be an intrinsic property of the molecules, not an impurity. "We plan," said Dr. Stern, "to study this interesting substance more extensively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Red Giants | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Some three years ago Harvard University received as a memorial gift a portrait bust of Descartes. But on comparison with the portrait in the Louvre, painted by Frans Hals, this attribution proved uncertain. It now is exhibited in the Fogg Museum for its intrinsic merit as sculpture.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 2/8/1938 | See Source »

Veteran of five wars, worried-looking Major-Gen. Sir Georqe John Younghus-band has for two decades lived in the Tower of London guarding Britain's crown jewels (intrinsic value: $30,000,000). He reported that two thieves had entered his Tower apartment, absconded with his radio.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

Experimental physicists have found that the electron has an intrinsic mass or "weight" of about .0000000000000000000000000009 gram. This quantity is usually represented by the convenient symbol m. Both experimental and mathematical physicists have regarded m as a major constant of nature, a foundation stone of the universe.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hunch | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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