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Advance notice was given to the public of a total eclipse of the sun impending on the 24th of January next. Prof. Ernest W. Brown of Yale University, a gentleman who has spent many years of his life making exceedingly accurate tables of the moon's behavior so that phases of the moon can be predicted accurately years in advance, has been appointed by the American Astronomical Society as Chairman of a Committee to inform the public concerning the eclipse -a very necessary function because of the proclivity of the press to garble accounts of things scientific. The unusual...
Cognizant that brevities are man's only weapons in his long war with Time, Paul Heymans. Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recently perfected a device capable of measuring intervals as small as one-billionth of a second. His method, first conceived by Prof. P. O. Pederson of the University of Copenhagen, consists of the employment of the so-called "Lichtenberg Figures"-phenomena which become manifest when an electric wave is reflected from an electrode. When two electrodes are placed side by side at a given angle, these Lichtenberg Figures will meet, coincide-the moment...
Army aviators using a process invented by Prof. Wilder D. Bancroft of Cornell, and Dr. L. Francis Warren of Harvard, "shot down" a series of clouds which overshadowed Boiling Field, Washington...
...Prof. A. J. Carlson, of the Department of Physiology in the University of Chicago, replied (Oct. 11) to Prof. Imre's attack on Dr. Koppanyi, testified as to the scientific status of Dr. Koppanyi's work. Prof. Carlson pointed out that Dr. Koppanyi has been on the research staff of his laboratory in the University of Chicago since January, and that such newspaper stories as have appeared have not been authorized either by Dr. Koppanyi or by the laboratory. Experiments have been made on spotted rats; and the transplanted eyes have undergone varying degrees of change from complete...
Supplementing the letter of Prof. Carlson, Dr. Koppanyi declared (Oct. 11) that the charges of Prof. Imre are not true. He denied that he gave unwarranted publicity to his work. He said that the return of vision is possible, but admitted that the optic nerve was not cut in his eye transplantation experiments...