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In Birkenhead, Herbert T. Coker, back in England from the U. S. for the first time in 43 years, was summoned to court. In 1888 he had been ordered to pay $1 a week to a Mrs. Elizabeth Dempsey for support of her child. He had never paid it, was...
Ted Healy, for instance, an engaging, bald-headed young man, is assisted in his swift antics by a trio of abject, greasy nondescripts whose entrance prompts Mr. Healy to remark: "The pool rooms are empty." This group becomes embroiled with a wrestling bear which seems more human than any of...
Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, 36, of Chicago, who has the dapper alertness of a business executive. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics (jointly with Charles Thomson Rees Wilson, 59, of Cambridge University). Professor Compton's reward was for measuring electro-magnetic waves.
The Swedish Academy of Sciences last week agreed that the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physics be divided between Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago and Professor Charles Thomson Rees Wilson of Cambridge University. Both men studied at Cambridge University under Sir Joseph John Thomson, who received the...
Physicist Wilson. In 1895, when Professor Compton was a demure three-year-old baby at Wooster (he is now 35), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson began his serious study of electromagnetic forces. This was at Sidney Sussex College of Cambridge University. Since 1925 he has been Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy...