Word: physicists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pleased with his unaccustomed publicity, Dr. Stebbins generously credits much of his success to a onetime colleague at the University of Illinois, Mathematical Physicist Jakob Kunz...
Professor Bridgman, the first speaker, treating the subject from the point of view of the Physicist, outlined the general history of the subject. He told how acquaintance with energy goes back to ancient times, and cited examples of "perpetual motion" machines which have been built periodically in the hope of preventing the dissipation of energy. The early manufacturers of these machines saw no reason whatsoever why they would not work, and it was not until the nineteenth century that knowledge of the forces involved became sufficiently good, so that people began to realize that their labors were in vain. Professor...
...Features of the first issue: more on Life-After-Death by Sir Oliver Lodge; an argument for parachutes for airline passengers by 'Chute-Inventor Floyd Smith; industrial application of intelligence tests, by Colgate University's Professor Donald Anderson Laird; Sunlight v. Windows by General Electric's Physicist Matthew Luckiesh...
...definite news of the new light at Princeton reached Pasadena, hearts burned among the staff of California Institute of Technology. Caltech was built to be the greatest lamp of Science in the U. S. Lumber, oil and electricity provided the fuel. Biggest wicks are Robert Andrews Millikan (Nobel Laureate, physicist), Arthur Amos Noyes (chemist). Thomas Hunt Morgan (geneticist). Astronomer George Ellery Hale gleams on Mount Wilson nearby. The late Albert Abraham Michelson (Nobel Laureate, physicist) used to measure light's speed a few miles to the south. Other brilliant scientists frequent Caltech for work & consultation, among them Albert Einstein...
...University of Pennsylvania Dr. Ellice McDonald, oncologist, and Dr. Alexander John Allen, physicist, are trying to strike germs and cancer cells dead with these short rays by producing them in body recesses by means of injections of certain chemical solutions. When x-rays activate these solutions, the chemicals throw the short ultraviolet darts into the nuclei of the cells, which thereupon perish...