Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most assiduous imitator of the Curie-Joliots is Professor Enrico Fermi, 32, Italian physicist. Using neutrons instead of alpha particles or deutons, he has produced radioactive forms of two dozen elements from fluorine to barium...
...start at some more or less definite time in the ancient past? . . . The possibility of synthetically preparing chlorophyll and through its action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years...
...Vleck, the well-known physicist, graduated from Wisconsin in 1920, and took his Masters' and Doctor's degrees here. After serving an instructorship here, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Leland Stanford, and finally at Wisconsin. He has done research work on the quantum theory and is the author of many scientific pamphlets. His duties next year will be divided between mathematics, quantum mathematics, and his research work...
...Messenger (Cornell 1881) "to provide a course of lectures on the evolution of civilization, for the special purpose of raising the moral standards of our political, business and social life." The first series was delivered in 1925 by Chicago's Archeologist James Henry Breasted. Subsequent lectures have included physicists, psychologists and geneticists. In calling another physicist to deliver the Messenger messages, instead of a great economist as "our political, business and social life" of .today might have suggested, Cornell's officials had profound considerations. Not the least profound was their chance to get Sir Arthur Eddington, whose position...
...convictions, last week had plenty of outside support. With 18 schools closed, San Francisco had 18,200 pupils on halftime. Oakland was looking over its buildings. Los Angeles had found 275 buildings unsafe, pitched many a tent. A Permanent Committee on Earthquake Protection was at work under famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. And University of California's Seismology Professor Perry Byerly declared: "It would be advisable if every city in California were as much concerned as Berkeley...