Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four years ago a promising young physicist from the University of California, Ernest Orlando Lawrence, left his sunny campus and the ramshackle old building in which he was working, traveled eastward across the U. S. and across the Atlantic to attend a European scientific conference in Brussels. He was the only U. S. scientist invited. He had invented and was already making formidable use of a curious and powerful atomic weapon-a "cyclotron" that imparted great speeds to projectiles for smashing atoms by whirling them around in a strong magnetic field...
Lemon. Another who in youth tried his hand at business (insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields...
...same principle underlies a technique, explained last week, for ferreting out defects in thick masses of steel. At the convention of the American Society for Testing Materials in Manhattan, Physicist E. V. Lange of Radium Chemical Co. demonstrated with a capsule containing one-tenth of a gram of radium. Gamma rays shooting out at a million or more volts passed through steel castings a foot thick, photographed the interior structure on X-ray films 10 by 12 in. in size. Tested by this method are steering posts of ships, turbines, valves, high-pressure steam pipes. Dr. Lange reported that...
...Physicist Carl David Anderson of California Institute of Technology, 1936 Nobel Prizeman. . . . . . Sc.D...
There are two fundamental fields that are covered in these five courses--the detection and determination of the elements, and quantitative measurement of physical phenomena. Training in both of these is essential for either the chemist or the physicist, but the one fits obviously into the field of chemistry, the other into that of physics. As the two are well defined, might it not be possible to separate them into two one-year courses? They would both take at least 8 hours a week of laboratory work and would preferably not be taken simultaneously. The chemical course would...