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...Millikan Rays. Histories of science will refer to 1925 and 1926 as the years when "universal rays" were reported by Dr. Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, Pasadena, Calif. Dr. Millikan, at a session of the American Geophysical Union, again described how he had detected, by observing their effect upon delicate instruments scabbarded against other influences, rays with a wave length one ten-millionth that of light rays; rays which can penetrate six feet of lead and which impinge upon the earth from the surrounding universe in all directions (TIME...
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...Millikan Ray. Dr. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Physical Laboratory (Pasadena) reported his five years' research upon a new ray, shorter, quicker, more penetrating than even the Xray. It will pierce two feet of lead. It reaches the earth continuously from surrounding space. Whence it comes, what it does to the earth, how and whither its vast power can be directed, Dr. Millikan could...
Doctor Shapley is the fourth professor to be appointed to this visit on Lectureship in recent years. The others were Dr. R. A. Millikan of the California Institute of Technology and Professor Paul Strong of Yale University. The former received an honorary degree at Harvard last June...
...point Dr. Millikan was carrying on his experiments on top of Pike's Peak with featherweight instruments buoyed in air by small balloons; at another time he probed 60 feet deep in a snow-fed lake under the brow of Mount Whitney. Since it would take 10,000,000 volts to reproduce the ray artificially, Dr. Millikan points out that there is little likelihood of his discovery being utilized for some time to come. The Academicians were interested...