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Robert Andrews Millikan: Eminent physicist, who with tireless zeal has studied the constitution of matter and the nature of interstellar space...
...Angeles next week the Nobel Laureate of the University of Chicago. Dr. Arthur Holly Compton hopes, if he has time, to say farewell to the Nobel Laureate of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. Accompanied by Mrs. Compton and their elder son Arthur Alan, he will start on a 20,000-mi. tour of Pacific mountain tops. To the tops of mountains in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska he will lug a 250-lb. machine to study the characteristics of the puzzling cosmic rays which Dr. Millikan has made his own. The study will supplement...
Cosmic rays may be evidence of cosmic construction (Millikan theory) or cosmic disintegration (Jeans theory). They may be the neutrons which Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University found bombarded out of beryllium (TIME, March 7) and which Dr. H. C. Webster of the University of Bristol last week reported that he had knocked from boron and fluorine...
Yesterday's awards bring the total number that the Foundation has given opportunities for research to since its establishment in 1925 to 417. Such scholars and authors as Lewis Mumford, Owen Lattimore, and Dr. Robert S. Millikan were also recipients
...mile of air, several feet of lead. They apparently weigh 200,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 to the ounce. It is only by the finest of discernment that they can be distinguished from unentangled quanta of energy. Streams of them may be what Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan calls cosmic rays. But Dr. Chadwick doubts that. Neutrons may be, because they have opposite poles, the long sought units of magnetism. Whatever they are, neutrons are fine things for physicists to play with and to guess about. They are, declared Lord Rutherford last week, the greatest discovery since the artificial...