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While Dr. Albert Einstein declared from the S. S. Belgenland last week that a better balance between producer and consumer was the world's most pressing problem in 1930 (see below), the man whom he was coming to visit, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, said the same thing in a speech to the 24th annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, meeting in Manhattan. Cause of Unemployment, he recited, is overproduction, inevitable result of the War. Although Science, the builder of machinery, has often been held responsible for taking...
...pound of energy∙... to extract the maximum of satisfaction to the race of our present reserves of energy." When coal and oil are gone, Science will turn to sunlight as man's source of energy. Reassuring to the insurance presidents was it to hear Caltech's Millikan, Nobel Prizeman of 1923, student of the Cosmic Ray and of subatomic energy (both of which he rules out as practical energy sources for mankind) declare: "Only the economic reason that coal and oil and gas are abundant and accessible prevents us from utilizing sunshine directly...
...Haberlandstrasse, Berlin. Frau Einstein had a busy time preparing for their long journey. So soon as Dr. Einstein announced last month that he would make his second trip to the U. S. to visit his scientific friends Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, University of Chicago physicist, and Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. (TIME, Nov. 24), scores of U. S. private citizens, public officials, clubs, and universities sent invitations for teas, dinners, receptions. Frau Einstein, who is her husband's keeper, had to reply with a refusal to every invitation. Her husband...
...Millikan Tube. Members of the Radiological Society of North America meeting in Pasadena gave Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, a gold medal for a powerful X-ray source developed in his laboratories. The new 650,000-volt tube, the work of Dr. E. C. Lauritsen, is the most powerful ever demonstrated. Dr. William David Coolidge in General Electric Laboratories, Schenectady, has been experimenting for the past year with a 900,000-volt tube not yet perfected for demonstration. Hospitals today use a 200,000-volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would...
...Albert Abraham Michelson, on leave of absence from the University of Chicago to repeat his measurement of the speed of light. For measuring a metre in terms of light he received the Nobel prize in 1907. The third gentleman will be the host -Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, head of Caltech, prizewinner in 1923 for his work on electrons...