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...whole galaxy of cosmic ray experts gathered last week at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, to honor Nobel Prizeman Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 80, principal discoverer and namer of cosmic rays. Dr. Millikan, who was spry enough last summer to travel by station wagon from Texas to Canada observing cosmic rays, described the gathering as "a testimonial to my longevity and a kind of celebration of my passage through the portal leading into second childhood...
...Millikan still sticks to his original long-held theory that cosmic rays come from the "annihilation of matter" (atoms turning into energy) somewhere out in space. He has elaborate evidence to prove his theory. The gathered cosmic raymen did not try to argue with their dean; neither did they agree with him. Cosmic rays are a baffling and complex phenomenon. In spite of years of concentrated work, the experts do not even agree about what they are, much less about what causes them...
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...