Word: millikan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eternal cycle. Among those whose minds were groping for the heart of being rather than its stomach was Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize winner, student of the cosmic ray (TIME, Nov. 23, 1925),† physicist of the California Institute of Technology. For years he has been in the vanguard of those attacking the foundations of the universe...
Professor Millikan has climbed the highest mountains, in Bolivia, Panama, California; measured these rays; found them about 200 times as penetrating...
Xray. The same rays were found in Bolivia and in California, showing that they come from a source so vast & remote that they strike the whole surface of the earth impartially. Theoretical calculations by Millikan out of Einstein, on the strength of the rays that would be shot forth if hydrogen atoms collided to form oxygen or nitrogen, perfectly checked the actual measurements made...
...Millikan pooh-poohed the fear of more timid citizens and blasted the hopes of more venturesome engineers. Man can never use the atom as a source of power or destruction by exploding and releasing its energy. This happens in Nature's laboratory; can be observed, measured, photographed; but the atoms available for the experimental laboratory are already in a fairly stable form. Splitting them up would require more power than they would set free...
Nebulium. Certain unfamiliar lines in the spectra of far off nebulae have long been thought by astronomers to be made by a mysterious element which they called nebulium. This idea was exploded by Professor Ira Sprague Bowen, famed physicist colleague of Dr. Millikan. He found the lines are caused by the very familiar elements oxygen and nitrogen. They seemed unfamiliar because, in the rare atmosphere around the stars these elements have room to cut complicated capers, storing up energy for some time, then jumping actively and shooting off rays. In the dense atmosphere of the earth they are always being...