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...Discovery of cosmic ("Millikan") rays...
...before Congress to prohibit the use of dogs for vivisection in the District of Columbia. For the first time, a well organized exhibition of research projects was included in the meeting so that scientists could see what they heard. Many were disappointed because their retiring president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, did not bring his friend Herr Doktor Albert Einstein, now in California, to tell them about Relativity. Incoming president for 1930-31 is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, director of biological laboratories at Caltech...
...Short, diplomatic Dr. Millikan, 1929-30 president of the Association, rocked back and forth on his toes, reasserted his belief that cosmic radiations replenish earth's energy loss, referred to his scientific opponent Sir James Hopwood: Jeans, British astronomer who believes the world is dying. "If Sir James Jeans prefers to hold one view and I another no one can say us nay. The one thing of which you may be quite sure is that neither of us knows anything about it." Dr. Millikan reviewed 100 years of scientific thought and labor, named what he esteemed as ten most...
Fortnight ago, Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, put Science and Industry in their places in a speech to U. S. life insurance presidents (TIME, Dec. 22). Last week Scientist Millikan, speaking before a Manhattan meeting of Phi Beta Kappa alumni, related Science and the Humanities. Himself a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi (science honor society), he suggested that since modern science owes its beginnings to oldtime scholars of the humanities, the two branches of knowledge should come in closer contact today through a union of Phi Beta Kappa, scholastic society, and Tau Beta...
After four busy days in port, Dr. & Frau Einstein steamed away aboard the Belgenland via Panama for San Diego, Calif, where Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan will meet them. Their California hostess will be a pleasant, greying woman who also knows what it is to be the wife of a famed scientist, Mrs. Robert Andrews Millikan. Born in Oak Park, Ill. she married Dr. Millikan 28 years ago. When she has time, she goes to meetings of Pasadena women's clubs, is active in the Pasadena Drama League, Community Playhouse Association. But of first importance to her is her husband...