Word: research
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During these weeks, Dr. Max Macon, Ph. D., Research Professor of Mathematical Physics, went about his recondite tasks as usual at the University of Wisconsin. At the close of the college year, he put in order the minutes of faculty meetings as a good secretary should. An earnest student, he devoted his increased leisure to redoubled efforts among differential equations, the calculus of variations, physical applications of mathematical theory. A skilled inventor, he answered correspondence concerning the Mason hydrophone, by which United States and British warships detected submarines during the War. A good provider and thoughtful husband, he packed...
When the Wisconsin State Federation of Labor last month censured the University of Wisconsin for accepting $12,500 from the General Education Board of the Rockefeller Institution, to be used for medical research, few people took the matter seriously. No one expects Labor organizations to see good in anything connected with the Standard Oil Co., least of all money-gifts bearing the Rockefeller name...
...colleagues "had no moral right to accept money from the Rockefeller Institution in view of the spending by the Standard Oil Co. of $2,770 for lobbying in the last session of the [state] legislature," he did not persuade his colleagues to make the resolution retroactive to the medical research money, $5,000 of which had been spent or allocated, nor to $218,000 in the past accepted from the Carnegie Fund for teachers' pensions. Zona Gale, authoress-trustee (in effect) : "A question of fundamental democracy is involved. The University should not accept such gifts no matter...
...Typical research accomplished with the aid of Rockefeller Funds: Prof. A. A. Michelson's (University of Chicago) experiment with light rays in a pipe-rectangle to check the Einstein relativity theory (TIME, Aug. 11, 1924); Professor Niels Bohr's (University of Copenhagen) atomic investigations in the infra-red region of the spectrum (TIME, Feb. 4, 1924), for which he last week received the Barnard Gold Medal from Columbia University...
...poisonous fumes, having no carbon troubles, getting 50 miles per fuel gallon, more like a steam engine than an internal combustion engine. The General Motors Corporation would manufacture this motor, install it in all its cars (Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Oakland, Oldsmobile). So said Dr. T. A. Boyd, General Motors Research Department...