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...which Dr. Hubble has observed through the Mount Wilson telescopes. Sir James has calculated that the Universe is expanding at a tremendous rate and in some far future eon will disintegrate. The lengthening of stellar rays seems to prove his thesis, which is the opposite of Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan...
...clever device Chairman Robert Andrews Millikan of the California Institute of Technology was able to measure the electrical charge of the electron, the indivisible unit of all electricity. For that Dr. Millikan won a 1923 Nobel Prize. Last week two other Caltech men-Jesse W. M. du Mond and Harry Kirkpatrick- reported the perfection of another device, to measure the speed of electrons moving within atoms. A serviceable description of the structure of an atom is this: At its core are, according to the particular kind of atom, 1 to 238 protons (positive charges of electricity). The hydrogen atom (simplest...
...mighty hook-up of radio and education was revealed: a National Advisory Council on Radio Education. Organized last year, it is now backed by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and the Carnegie Corporation, who promise to finance it for the next three years. Its president is Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology; its vice president, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; its board chairman, Banker Norman H. Davis. Executive committee and active members include many a famed educator, publicist, business man, scientist. Director is Levering Tyson who has' retired as head of Columbia University's Department...
These two medals are awarded annually to scientists who have done something of importance to the scientific world, and they have been given in the past to such men as Thomas A. Edison, Professor R. A. Millikan, Professor A. A. Michelson, Professor Gilbert Lewis, and Dr. J. McKeen Cattell. The basis of the awarding of the medals is the report of a jury of distinguished American scientists as to the men most deserving under the purpose of the award...
...ominous thing he had to say, Dr. Heyroth briefly described the electromagnetic spectrum and the nature of the various radiations, from the long, red end of the visible spectrum out to Hertzian or radio waves; and from the short, violet end of the visible spectrum out to the cosmic (Millikan...