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...first employe: Robert Andrews Millikan, then 16, later a Nobel Prizewinner in physics...
Robert A. Millikan...
...manifesto of U. S. science, made public last week, was signed by 1,284 scientists, including three Nobel Laureates (Millikan of Caltech, Urey of Columbia, Langmuir of General Electric). 64 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 85 college presidents, deans, directors of industrial laboratories and experiment stations. It declared...
...Curtiss and Astin found that cosmic rays were thickest twelve miles up, where the intensity is 200 times that at sea level. This agrees closely with the findings of Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan. who sent balloons to 92,000 ft., recorded a cosmic-ray peak...
...afternoon will mathematically symbolize other parallelisms than past football glories at times extinguished. For the two brightest galaxies in the entire academic firmament of American are those of Harvard and Chicago. Within the space of its short life, the latter has produced a Breasted for almost every Kittredge, a Millikan for a Whitehead. And if Harvard, regards, itself as the leader in educational, innovations, it may well wink at Chicago's introduction of quarterly sessions, of learn as-fast-as-you-can methods. Europe's unblessed--the great martyrs of Democracy--are divided equally; a Bruening to Harvard, a Benes...