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...roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich Regener at Stuttgart had sent up sounding balloons to 20 miles, had demonstrated increasing cosmic ray intensity to that height, which no stratonaut since has approached. Meanwhile Millikan and Compton were assembling their cosmic ray information and formulating theories from airplane flights, mountain tops, lake bottoms...
...grouped under eight headings: society, business and economics, politics, science, religion, literature and art, and sport. Among the authors represented are: William B. Munro, Willard L. Sperry, Raphael Demos, F. W. Taussig, William Z. Ripley, Floyd H. Allport, Harold J. Laski, Albert Jay Nock, Walter Lippmann, Robert A. Millikan, Bishop William Lawrence, Max Eastman, and John R. Tunis...
...World treasures by the carload; at his San Simeon estate third-rate cinemactors sleep in Cardinal Richelieu's ornate bed. In California lunch rooms are built like igloos, puppies, derby hats. At California Institute of Technology work Nobel Prize-winning Geneticist Thomas Hunt Morgan and Physicist Robert Millikan. California has more medical quacks than any state in the Union. It righteously keeps Tom Mooney in jail at San Quentin, kneels prayerfully at the feet of Sister Aimee Semple McPherson in Los Angeles. California blinks its eyes from the glare of kleig lights in hysterical Hollywood, is lulled...
...there has also been a cosmic disturbance between Dr. Millikan and Sir James Hopwood Jeans, who thought the rays were by-products of the steady annihilation of star substance. To pious Dr. Millikan the notion of a universe crumbling to chaos was repugnant. But to honest Dr. Millikan a fact is a fact. The fact that moved him to change his mind, he admitted last week, was the high energy of some cosmic rays. Low energy rays might still be deemed to arise from the building of elements. But when rays of 10,000,000,000 volts are detected...
...Millikan had reserved his remarks for an appropriate occasion, the International Conference on Physics. The roster of those assembled was studded with names famed the world over. Present and greeted with stormy applause were quiet, brilliant Jean Frédéric Joliot and Irene Curie-Joliot, son-in-law and daughter of the late Marie Sklodowska Curie. A vast and totally unforeseen field of research was opened last year when the Curie-Joliots discovered the phenomenon of artificial radioactivity. The young couple obtained a continued emission of positrons from boron, magnesium and aluminum by bombarding those elements with alpha...