Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...million births on earth yearly. Leaving aside the fact that the earth's population has grown from a few millions to two billion in the last 2,000 years, the world can count mathematically on only one set of octuplets being born every 690,000 years. As Physicist James Jeans declares that the Age of Man runs back 300,000 years, Mrs. Ting's marvel seemed to be some 390,000 years ahead of time...
...written War of the Worlds (1898), the first act of arriving Martians is to spray spectators with a death beam. In real life death rays have been announced time & again, but never convincingly demonstrated. When one Harry Grinnell-Matthews loudly announced a death ray some years ago in England, Physicist Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins said he would stand 65 ft. from the apparatus and invite Mr. Grinnell-Matthews to turn on his radiations full blast. Last month in Omaha the Inventors' Congress was informed by its President Albert G. Burns that he had witnessed a death ray demonstration...
...expressing astonishment at her learning, and then married. Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
Died. Wilbur Morris Stine, 70, physicist, poet, educator; of apoplexy; at Penfield, Pa. Dr. Stine claimed that he was first (1892) to get an x-ray shadow picture, the first (1897) to suggest the remedial use of x-rays...
...Physicist Arthur Holly Compton Sc.D...