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...have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard to keep the public from annoying her husband, will not permit him to go ashore in New York. The other two distinguished gentlemen are already in California. One is Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave of absence from the University of Chicago to repeat his measurement of the speed of light. For measuring a metre in terms of light he received the Nobel prize in 1907. The third gentleman will be the host -Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, head of Caltech, prizewinner...
...Einstein has been considering another trip to U. S. for three years. (He visited in 1921.) He will arrive just in time to see Dr. Michelson perform his light experiments. Since he was a young physics instructor at Annapolis, Dr. Michelson has repeated his measurements from time to time, refining his technique with each performance. In 1926, he shot a beam of light from Mt. Wilson to San Antonio Peak, 22 mi. away, determined that light travels 186,284 mi. per sec. Later he was convinced that he might have made an error of 18.62 mi. per sec. because...
...Einstein is interested in getting an exact measure of light's speed because it bears on his theories of the curvature and limitation of space. He will be able to put his eye to Dr. Michelson's eyepiece, watch the light flash in a 32-faced revolving mirror placed at one end of the tube. The mirror is adjusted so that by the time the light beam has raced away from it, down the mile tube and back again, another one of its 32 faces has turned to catch the light. By measuring the time it takes...
...Headquarters. Party leaders in Washington supply the campaign words-&-music which candidates repeat on the stump throughout the land. Chief Republican composer: James L. West, director of publicity. Chief Democratic composer: Charles Michelson, director of publicity. They write the statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World...
Resigned. Albert Abraham Michelson, 77, Ph. D., Sc. D., LL. D., since 1892 head of the University of Chicago's physics department, 1907 Nobel prizewinner ($40,000): from the university...