Word: menzel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Aiming their new warlike instrument at the sun from the Harvard station in Climax, Colorado, Donald H. Menzel, Prof. of Astrophysics and his assistant Walter Roberts, a graduate student in Astronomy, are shown above. This new station is the most recent addition to the ever expanding horizons of Dr. Shapley's world famous observatory on Garden St., here in Cambridge. The instrument embodies the most recent developments in optics including the new "invisible glass" coating which was developed by Dr. C. H. Cartwright at M. I. T. It will study the mysterious solar corona and prominences, upheavals of which occasionally...
Professor Menzel will give a free public lecture tonight about this instrument and the work done with it this summer. The title of his talk, which is one of a series of regular "Open Night" lectures at the Observatory, will be "Mystery of the Solar Corona...
...lectures are: October 29, "The New Comets," by Dana K. Bailey; November 1, "Mystery of the Solar Corona," by Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy; November 6, "In Between the Stars," by Bart J. Bok, assistant professor of Astronomy; and November 8, "Peculiar Variable Stars," by Dr. Luigi Jacchia...
Coronagraph recordings may have great practical value. The magnetic storm which disrupted communications Easter Sunday was probably started, thinks Professor Menzel, when the earth coursed through the tail end of a corona streamer. Coronagraph experiments may help predict such storms in advance...
Also, said Dr. Menzel, "Coronal observations may furnish an index that statisticians can use, or perhaps misuse, in attempts to correlate solar activity with terrestrial affairs, such as the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, occurrence of aurorae, biological effects of radiation, meteorological phenomena, and perhaps some day, long-range weather forecasting...