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...generally grouped under captains. A British veteran of 30 years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter...
...week had plenty of outside support. With 18 schools closed, San Francisco had 18,200 pupils on halftime. Oakland was looking over its buildings. Los Angeles had found 275 buildings unsafe, pitched many a tent. A Permanent Committee on Earthquake Protection was at work under famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. And University of California's Seismology Professor Perry Byerly declared: "It would be advisable if every city in California were as much concerned as Berkeley...
...believed that there are several types of cosmic ray particles, in addition to the high speed electrons, which enter our atmosphere from space. Millikan holds that photons, which also enter our atmosphere from without but unlike the electrons leave no trace of their passage, collide with the nuclei of inolecules in the air and cause a certain amount of disintegration of those nuclei. A shower would then be produced similar to those of the high speed electrons...
...crossed banners of the American Institute of Physics and the New York Electrical Society in Manhattan last week met three famed men of Science, with many a lesser luminary, to retort for their profession. One was Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The other was Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology. The third was Frank Baldwin Jewett of Bell Telephone Laboratories. In a telegram to the meeting President Roosevelt took a nicely neutral position: "The value to civilization of scientific thought and research cannot be questioned. . . . The idea that Science is responsible for the [recent] economic...
According to Nobel Laureate Millikan "technological unemployment'' was a bugaboo easily driven to cover by census figures: in 1880 34% of the U. S. population was gainfully employed, while after 50 years of sweeping technological advance, 40% of the population was gainfully employed. Critics who accused Science of making war horrible were facing the wrong way: Science had made war so horrible that in the future nations would recoil from it as if from suicide...