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Sulking Tube. Mystified, Van Allen hurried back to Iowa, where his assistants, Drs. Carl McIlwain and Ernest Ray, were puzzling over a copy of the same tape. The three almost simultaneously hit a solution. The high-flying Geiger tube was being swamped by too heavy a dose of some kind of radiation. This is a weakness of Geiger tubes. If required to count too many times a second, they sulk and do not count...
...spoke in Sanders Theatre on "Woodrow Wilson Revisited: An Evening of Reevaluation," along with Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Paul M. Herzog, Associate Dean of the faculty of Public Administration, and Charles Howard McIlwain, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government...
...McIlwain, an intimate friend of Wilson in his early Princeton days, reminisced extemporaneously
...McIlwain, an intimate friend of Wilson in his early Princeton days, reminisced extemporaneously
...have much to contribute to their field of learning. Albert Guerard, former professor of comparative literature at Stanford University and father of professor Albert Guerard, Jr., conducted a seminar titled "A Century of French Culture," and "The Origin of American Political Institutions and Ideas," was led by Charles H. McIlwain...