Word: millikan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Glenn Allan Millikan, 40, mountain-climbing physiology professor at Vanderbilt University Medical School, son of Nobel Prizewinning Nuclear Physicist Robert A. Millikan; when a rock fell on him while he was scaling a cliff; in Pikesville, Tenn...
Materialism and science worship are in full retreat, eminent scientists leading the chase. Millikan proclaims that "the mechanistic philosophy is bankrupt." The trend is toward God, all right. Or rather, it is away from His enemies. It has become as fashionable and as easy to laugh at the blindness of ethical relativism with C. S. Lewis, the English wit, as it used to be to laugh with H. L. Mencken at the blindness of the Bible belt. But has the tone of the laughter improved? Is there...
...social sciences plane, the exhibit features the first edition of Nietzche's "Geneologie de Moral," the first written presentation of Einstein's Corpuscular Theory of Light, and the first edition of Millikan's "The Electron...
...taken Rice four years to get his successor. The trustees went out to find a scientist with the right amount of "character, reputation, experience, ability, personality and background." At last they found him: benign, highbrowed Physicist William Vermillion Houston, 46, who last year succeeded famed Robert Andrews Millikan as chairman of the California Institute of Technology's division of physics, mathematics and electrical engineering...
...there anyone who still talks about the materialism of science?" wrote Robert Andrews Millikan, Caltech's famed physi cist. "Rather does the scientist join with the psalmist of thousands of years ago in reverently proclaiming, 'the Heavens de clare the glory of God and the firmament sheweth His handiwork.' " Hungarian-born Rene FtilSp-Miller, a onetime hermit on Mt. Athos who has written biographies of Pope Leo XIII, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Lenin and Gandhi, sees Physicist Millikan 's attitude as part of "a new 'renaissance,' which is about to bring back man's appreciation...