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...years cosmic rays have made a pother in the scientific news. Hardly less of a pother has Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan made by his controversies with colleagues who did not see his cosmic ray theories as he did. By last fortnight Dr. Millikan had decided that laymen interested in cosmic rays were being hopelessly confused by the tangle of-fact and conjecture reported by numerous researchers...
...ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to talk about cosmic rays, show the latest apparatus for research in artificial radioactivity. On hand was many another bigwig. But the name on everyone's tongue was that of Albert Einstein. The great German journeyed from the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton to make...
...Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan's belief that he expects the cosmic ray mystery to be solved within a year, advising laymen and teachers not to accept current findings as true until checked by several observers...
...have a paradise especially made for them." Less cynical Yalemen, who know what a forcing ground for M. P.'s the Oxford Union has been, could find potential U. S. statesmen in the two young men with famed names who headed the Yale Political Union: president. Max Franklin Millikan, '35, son of Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan; vice president, August Heckscher II, '36, grandson of the Manhattan philanthropist...
...Compton and others learned that cosmic ray intensity varies with latitude, and Dr. T. H. Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney balloon, one of the few real trophies ever brought down from stratonauts' stunts aloft...