Word: millikan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Andrews Millikan (cosmic rays). D.Sc...
...Robert Andrews Millikan, Nobel Prize Winner, chided the New York Chamber of Commerce because businessmen in general are slow in applying scientific research in their affairs...
...occasion of Dr. Millikan's address was the award made to him of the Messel Medal, an award bestowed by the society every two years upon the person whose work has been most conducive to the progress of science...
...Millikan explained that there was no reason apparent why the universe should ever end, implied that it had never even begun. Somewhere in the depths of space, he believed, helium, oxygen, silicon and iron were being formed from the ultimate constituent of all matter, the electron. "In the hot stars and the sun," he said, "matter is being disintegrated into energy or radiation: in the unimaginably cold expanse of space, radiation or energy is being reintegrated into matter...
Cows. Dr. Millikan's abstractions were the exception, not the rule. Other reports dealt with some of these practical benefits derived from pure science. Francis Howard Car of England, president of the society, reported experiments indicating that the stock-carrying capacity of pastures and consequently their output of meat or milk may be increased to an unexpectedly high level. One-half an acre of grass intensively treated with nitrates for the purpose suffices as a substitute for the usual two or three acres required to graze a cow or its equivalent for a season...