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...Menzel has won this prize three times out of the six that it has been awarded since 1926. He won the first prize offered in 1926 when associated with the Lick Observatory at the University of California. In 1828 he shared it with P. R. Gerasimovie of the Harvard College Observatory for a paper on which they collaborated...
Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Mathematics; Howard W. Emmons, associate professor of Engineering Science; Wassily W. Leontief, professor of Economics; Donald H. Menzel, professor of Astrophysics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Julian S. Schwinger, professor of Physics; Samuel A. Stouffer, professor of Sociology and Director of the Laboratory of Social Relations...
...estimates of the nature of the sun's composition will be the goal of a two-year research program under Naval contract by a group of scientists including Professor Donald H. Menzel, associate director for Solar Research...
Professor Menzel hopes that the Office of Naval Research program will "lead to an improved understanding of the sun, its chemical composition and the way in which solar radiation reacts on the earth...
...known that the temperature of the radiation from the surface of the sun is approximately 6,000 degrees centigrade," Menzel and Goldberg pointed out, "But the condition of atoms in the sun's outer atmosphere indicates that temperatures of over 1,000,000 degrees centigrade prevail at some distance from the sun. This and other indirect evidence suggest that there is an unexpectedly large quantity of ultra-violet radiation from the sun's surface...