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Wednesday, November 3, at 8 p.m., "The Sun--an International Resource," by Professor Donald H. Menzel...
Jane Rainie '50 and Alice Steer '50 will share the chairmanship of the new dormitory-commuter committee. Elizabeth Menzel '51 will wield the baton at the annual Annex song contest on the Quadrangle this term. Mia Atherton '51 was named to head the Alumnae fund committee...
...Push. Another stubborn mystery that got the theory treatment: cosmic rays-the enormously powerful particles that slam into the earth's atmosphere. Cosmic rays, said Drs. Donald H. Menzel (Harvard) and W. W. Salisbury (Collins Radio Co.), may be "accelerated particles" from a natural cyclotron whose power source...
This is what may happen, said Menzel & Salisbury, in the great "vacuum chamber" (space) outside the earth's atmosphere. They start with the assumption that disturbances (such as sunspots) on the sun's surface send out powerful radio waves about a million miles long which set up "transient fields" in space. These pick up wandering protons and give them a mighty, long-lasting push. When the protons hit the earth's atmosphere, they have enough energy to rate as cosmic rays...
...Menzel & Salisbury are trying to find out (no easy matter) whether the sun is really broadcasting those long, strong radio waves...