Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even with diamond-pointed ruling machines it is extremely difficult to rule hundreds of thousands of such infinitesimal lines accurately on hard metal or glass. Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see above), Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins showed how a brilliant scientist may adapt for his own use a technique worked out for a wholly differ ent purpose. At California Institute of Technology, Dr. John Donovan Strong has been coating telescope mirrors with a thin, even layer of aluminum by placing the glass in a vacuum tank, boiling the aluminum...
...Gorrie was a good enough physicist to know that expanding air absorbs heat from its surroundings. Accordingly he built a steam-driven pump which packed air to ten times atmospheric pressure. The released air chilled water until it froze. Dr. Gorrie was granted U. S. Patent...
...Princeton 500 well-behaved demonstrators gathered to hear a pacifist message from Physicist Albert Einstein, a speech by Columnist Dorothy Thompson Lewis who advised: "Go into politics, young men. There's plenty to do in this country, getting it back from the pioneers who nearly ruined...
...worry about the quality of its president, able, young, onetime Rhodes Scholar Alan Chester Valentine, imported from Yale four months ago (TIME, Nov. 25). The University of Rochester does not have to worry about the brainpower of its faculty, which includes venerable Geologist Herman Le Roy Fairchild; able young Physicist Lee Alvin DuBridge; Historian Dexter Perkins. But last week the University of Rochester appeared to be deeply worried about the tone of its student body when it launched a nationwide search for 120 talented, attractive undergraduates...
Died. John Scott Haldane, 76, famed physiologist and physicist, brother of the late Richard Burdon Viscount Haldane (onetime Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain), father of London University's celebrated Author-Biochemist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane; of pneumonia; in Oxford. A confirmed hater of materialism, he called it "nothing better than a superstition...