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Most other British universities where experimental physics holds high rank have onetime Cavendish men as department heads. Three men (Thomson, Aston and Wilson) were awarded Nobel Prizes while working at Cavendish. Rutherford was already a Nobel Laureate when he went from Manchester to Cavendish. Chadwick got his Nobel Prize a month after he had left Cavendish for Liverpool. Among the foreign bigwigs who have studied at Cavendish are two other Nobelists: Niels Bohr of Denmark and Arthur Holly Compton of Chicago. This bombardment of laurels seems exceedingly likely to continue...
Officials of Westinghouse Co., gathering material to go into an 800-lb. cupaloy* time capsule which is to be buried 50 feet in the earth on the New York World's Fair site, not to be opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need...
When, in March 1936, the conservative New York Herald Tribune hired Miss Thompson to write a thrice-weekly column, she was known as: 1) an unusually alert foreign correspondent with vaguely radical leanings; 2) the wife of Nobel Prizewinner Sinclair Lewis. Guided by her most passionate emotion-a consuming hatred of Hitler-Columnist Thompson began writing with shrill assurance that startled readers. As insistent as a katydid, never at a loss for an answer, almost invariably incensed about something, her column has pleased a national appetite for being scolded. Today, her On the Record is printed in 155 newspapers with...
...Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
...comparatively young man (he is 32), amiable, dimple-chinned Dr. Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology has accomplished a great deal in science. In 1932 he snapped the first picture of a positive electron. For this discovery he won the highest honor Science can bestow, a Nobel Prize. His pioneer positive electron photograph has become historic. In the Physical Review last week, Prizeman Anderson printed a snapshot of another kind of particle which may also become historic...