Word: mathematician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prominent as Mathematician...
...James, prominent as a mathematician as well as an astronomer, has been elected the Medalist of the Franklin Institute for the present year. "The Mysterious Universe," "The Universe Around. Us," and "The Stars in Their Courses" are the best known of the books which the eminent scientist has written on the field which he is to treat in his lecture tonight. From 1919 to 1928, he was the secretary of the Royal Society, and has been since 1923 Research Associate of the Mount Wilson Observatory, of which he has been the guest during the first part of the present year...
...Word. For more than 500 years The Word, the secret of the order, has been unviolated. However, observers suspect that The Word is no more than trade mathematics, as expressed in the title chosen by the 18th Century French Mathematician Gaspard Monge, no Freemason tattler, who wrote about "Descriptive Geometry, or the Art & Sciece of Masonic Symbolism...
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...
What Is Going to Happen Next? Physics is like "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." ? Charles Galton Darwin (Edinburgh U.), mathematician grandson of the Charles Darwin...