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...purpose of this great project is experiment?experiment that deals with the Einstein theory. Chicago University, endowed by John D. Rockefeller, has had the money to obtain the best equipment, both in men and material, for experimental purposes. One of the men is the famous Physics Prof. Albert Abraham Michelson, who not so long ago measured the star, Betelgeuse, although he has other equally famous research and theories to his credit. The object of this new experiment is best explained in the words which one of the experimenting physicists used to simplify the idea of the experiment for the understanding...
...Nichols stopped in the middle of a sentence, leaned against the marble stand, and for a moment none realized what was happening. President A. A. Michelson and other scientists rushed to his side, ambulances were summoned, but the speaker was dead. The session was discontinued. Dr. Nichols was one of the most distinguished of American physicists. Born in Kansas in 1869 he was educated at the Kansas Agricultural College, Cornell University, Berlin, Cambridge, and held numerous honorary degrees. He taught at Colgate, Dartmouth, Columbia, became President of Dartmouth in 1909. Resigning in 1916 to become Professor of physics at Yale...
...hours and project it through a telescopic lens in an image showing the sun spots. ¶ A spectroscope to resolve the sun rays into the component colors, showing the Fraunhofer lines of the various chemical elements in the sun's spectrum. ¶ The interferometer of Dr. A. A. Michelson, with which he measured the wave length of light and the diameter of Betelgeuse...
...exercises, Dr. Michelson, President of the Academy, was in the chair. Addresses were delivered by President John C. Merriam, of the Carnegie Institution, Secretary Vernon Kellog, of the Research Council, Professor T. H. Morgan, of Columbia...
...greatest research faculty in America, comparable only with Hopkins. With his Continental university training, he saw the need for intensive graduate work in the sciences, and he gathered together in a few famous departments a galaxy of great minds scarcely yet duplicated in our leading universities. They included Michelson and Webster in physics, Whitman in biology, Chamberlain in anthropology, Blakeslee in international law, Sanford in psychology. Hall was not only the moving spirit in assembling them, but he was their direct inspiration to a new and higher type of University product, giving them the facilities, appreciation and moral support that...