Word: neher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tasmania last week with 225 rubber balloons, large tanks of hydrogen and a short-wave radio receiving set sailed hoary-headed Robert Andrews Millikan, pious physicist of the California Institute of Technology. With him went two brilliant young colleagues: Physicists Henry Victor Neher and William Hayward Pickering. For 18 years Dr. Millikan has carted his balloons through the snowy ranges of the Andes and Rockies, has plunged his flat, metal electroscopes 280 feet into snow-fed California lakes, to measure minute amounts of electricity which may penetrate their surfaces. Purpose of his travels: to learn something about the mysterious cosmic...
...August of last year Anderson was more inclined to believe that a new particle really existed than that the Bethe-Heitler theory was at rault. Further help for the theory came from the researches of Caltech's H. Victor Neher at San Antonio, Tex., and Madras, India. Cosmic ray particles are pulled toward the earth's poles by its magnetic field. Particles of high energy resist this pull, and so predominate in the region of the Equator. The latitude difference between Madras (13° N.) and San Antonio (29° N.) furnished valuable data on electrons...
...Caspar Neher goes credit for some unique scenery, including two invaluable magic lantern screens which announce numbers and situations, and a papier-máché horse which slides out of a pipe organ just in time to save Captain Macheath's life. Composer Weill's music is dissonantly insinuating. A sample of Librettist Brecht's strange but robust work...
...cosmic rays as any other electroscope he knows of. Vibration does not disturb it. Hence unlearned Army fliers are to take up replicas to heights of from 20,000 to 25,000 ft. Co-inventors of the new Millikan electroscope were Professors Ira Sprague Bowen. and Henry Victor Neher who works under Dr. Millikan at Caltech. The highest Dr. Millikan has sent an electroscope was in a free balloon to 9.6 miles, a height surpassed by Professor Piccard last year, and again last week. Last fortnight Professor Erich Regener of the Institute of Technology at Stuttgart despatched a free balloon...