Word: millikan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology told the Academy about a new ray which he had discovered-a ray which begins in eternity. Born beyond space, in some dim interstellar vestibule behind the gates of the discoverable universe, out of a womb still swollen with gas, perhaps with litters of uncreated stars, the Millikan Ray stabs earthward, traversing aerial shambles strewn with the debris of mutating solar systems, planes where (according to schoolboy definition) parallel lines may meet, and voids in which time, unhinged, spins like a tiny weathervane in an everlasting whirlwind. What bred...
...representatives of Chicago's Faculty, which contains such men as Chamberlin, Michelson, Hale and Millikan, Dr. Mason envisioned Chicago as the cultural and intellectual center of the world. Later, at his home on the heights overlooking Lake Mendota, he discoursed upon productive scholarship...
Rashness. Dr. Whitney based much of his address upon recent findings of Drs. J. J. Thompson and R. A. Millikan. The latter, director of the laboratory of the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, also spoke: "We must learn to get away from over-assertiveness and dogmatism, whether scientific or theological...
...Millikan '27, R. G. Rosegrant '26, D. F. Robinson...
...Loring '26 Elyson Miss Mary Leonard Mahai Miss Frances Chase Jaspar H. S. Smith '25 Melchior Murray Pease '26 Balthazar H. W. Keyes '26 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 Messenger Lendon Snedeker '25 First Courtier H. S. Weber '25 Second Courtier P. R. Hepburn '25 Clerks G. A. Millikan '27, R. G. Rosegrant '26, Ross Wilkins...