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Science defends itself. Like the New York Daily News's Cartoonist Clarence Daniel Batchelor, thoughtful folk often brood on science's responsibility for the ruin and slaughter of technological warfare. Blame cannot be fixed. As Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan has pointed out, "Explosives and fertilizers are basically the same." Like Tartaglia, who founded the science of ballistics in the 16th Century, scientists in Britain and the U.S. may sometime feel their work on instruments of death to be "a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and man." But Tartaglia consoled himself with...
...confused with his famed father, Physicist Robert A. Millikan...
...SCOTT, Businessman C.B. MILLIKAN, Professor of Aeronautics* California Institute of Technology Pasadena, Calif...
White Engineering Corp., predicted that atomic power would be available in 20 years, may be ten. Mr. Dunn, a practical man who personally holds over 30 patents, said he was sure that Robert Andrews Millikan would agree with him. Dr. Millikan, Caltech's famed cosmic-ray authority who used to say that atomic power was a visionary dream, was "unavailable" to reporters who wanted to know whether he agreed or not. As a friend of Mr. Dunn's, he may possibly not have wanted to contradict...
...evening of the same day, he will address the Harvard Club-men on the "Case of the privately-Endowed University." The other main speaker on this program will be DR. Robert A. Millikan, Nobel Prize physicist of California Technology Institute...