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Cosmic Rays. The hall was packed to hear Dr. Robert A. Millikan of California Institute of Technology report on another summer's investigation of the all-penetrating ether vibrations, or universal rays, detected a quarter-century ago but not measured until two years ago, by Dr. Millikan. New measurements, taken with instruments eight times as sensitive as before, in snow-fed lakes at high altitudes in Bolivia and California, showed the rays to have twice the penetration Dr. Millikan last reported. They reached his instruments through 120 feet of water, the equivalent of eleven feet of lead...
...chemistry in industry is now too obvious to need emphasis, but the delegates took special satisfaction in knowing that the huge U. S. Steel Corp. has lately organized a pure research department "of proper magnitude," with Professor John Johnston (from Yale) as active head and Director Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology as chief adviser, to study alloys. Game. Dr. Charles Holmes Herty of Manhattan proposed a game for undergraduate chemists-let them try to find new uses for the many strange derivations that analysts have obtained from petroleum and other raw materials. Gassing a City. Dr. Harry...
Other diversions of the meeting: Judge Gary, to emphasize that there were brains in the corporation, patted President James Augustine Farrell on the head-strenuously. Of dividends on the increased stock, the Judge said: "The dividend, I believe, will be 1% [as at present]." Scientist Robert Andrews Millikan will direct the corporation's research laboratories. Luncheon consisted, as usual, of sandwiches, apple, coconut and pumpkin pies, ice cream and coffee...
...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
Many another far-reaching discovery through study and determination Dr. Millikan has made. Among them are the effect of temperature on photo-electric discharge, the determination of the velocities of electrons discharged from metals under the influence of ultraviolet light, the polarization of light from incandescent surfaces, the extension of the ultraviolet spectrum, the laws of reflection of gas molecules, the Brownian movement in gasses and the absorption of X-rays. But, like Scientist Steinmetz, he sees no conflict between science and religion. The blood of staunch, God-fearing New Englanders runs in his veins. His father was a Congregational...