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...radio-activity and electromagnetism in liquids. The instruments which Professor Einstein used were invented by Professor Piccard, and Dr. Einstein has cabled seeking an appointment with him on the Pacific Coast. Professor Piccard [born 1884 at Basle, Switzerland] was also one of the first scientists to verify the Michelson and Morley experiments [performed first in 1887] that gave rise to the Einstein theories...
...William Crocker of the Boyce Thompson institute was awarded the medal at the same time. This award is given for special merit in the field of science and Invention and such eminent scientists as Thomas A. Edison, Robert Andrews Millikan, Albert A. Michelson, James McKeen Catell, and Gilbert N. Lewis have won the prize...
...stepped out into the comfortable quarters of the Empire State Club, were bowed into a private dining room overlooking 34th Street. Ranged around the luncheon table were James Aloysius Farley, the bald, boyish chairman of the Democratic National Committee; Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's energetic little aristocrat; Charles Michelson, the party's elderly, tousle-headed pressagent; Frank Walker, the committee's treasurer; Arthur O'Brien, headquarters worker-and John Jacob Raskob...
...built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert Einstein. Last week Caltech made sure, and announced that Dr. Einstein would again spend several weeks there, beginning some time in December...
...support it on local specifications. He joined the Democratic combination that log-rolled into the Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers of dark tobacco in his State...