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...hydrogen atom, but it did not. Then it was found that oxygen had two isotopes* weighing 17 and 18 units respectively. Thus it began to seem more & more probable that hydrogen might also have one or more isotopes of its own. Birge of the University of California and Menzel of Harvard showed that the difference would be erased if one atom of hydrogen in every 4,500 had a nucleus twice the weight of the common nuclei. Allison of Alabama Polytechnic Institute found some curious magneto-optic effects in hydrogen which he chose to explain by the presence...
...dates, titles, and speakers for the lectures are as follows: October 22, "Atoms," Donald H. Menzel, assistant professor of Astronomy; October 24, "Planets," Dr. Gabriel G. Gillie; October 30, "Stars," Dr. Cecilia PayneGaposchin, research associate; and November 1, "Galaxies," Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy...
...huge Czechoslovakian and a slight South African were the foreigners the galleries watched most at Forest Hills. Annoyed at being made to play his second-round match in an intermittent shower, Roderick Menzel amused himself by uttering Czechoslovakian epithets, tottering about at snail's pace between points. He was put out in the fourth round. Vernon Gordon Kirby, whose father fought in the Boer War, first gained world recognition when he defeated Baron von Cramm to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon this year. At Forest Hills last week he put Frank Shields out in the quarterfinals, only...
More impressive if not more efficient than any of his confrères was a 200-lb., 6-ft. 3-in. Czechoslovakian named Roderick Menzel, who plays in long shorts and woolen socks that come up almost to his knees. A minor poet and novelist in Prague, Menzel began to play tennis seriously eight years ago. Although he liked it much less than soccer, he soon contrived to be his country's No. 1 player. This season he carried Perry to five sets at Wimbledon and beat Crawford in the European Zone Davis Cup final. If Perry, the defending champion, plays...
Other elections from the Harvard faculty were as follows: Edgar Anderson, Franzo H. Crawford, Chester L. Dawes, Jacob P. Den, John F. Ebersole, Sterling P. Fergusson, Cyrus H. Fiske, Henry Jackson, Jr., Matt B. Jones, Donald H. Menzel, Richard S. Meriam, Harry R. Mimac, Leroy M. S. Miner, Arthur E. Monroe, Robert H. Pfeiffer, William C. Quimby, Sumner H. Schlicter, Carle C. Zimmerman...