Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Demonstration, rather than pure research, was the goal of the installation at the Show. The Bureau wants more people to know about these tests, and what they are doing to find the cause of accidents...
...equipment which was used at New York is now in the Hemenway Gym, and in December will be operated from time to time by the Bureau in further research. The effects of alcohol will be studied, it is reported...
...Research on the atom has attracted some of the most brilliant minds of contemporary science, and atomic history is strewn with the names of Nobel Prizewinners. Aged Sir J. J. Thomson, who discovered the electron, is a Nobelman; so is Niels Bohr of Denmark and so was the late Lord Rutherford of England, who formulated atomic structure. Their atom was, and still is, a nucleus surrounded by electrons. But in the 1920's, with the powerful searchlight of relativity illuminating the atomic field, it became apparent that the picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity...
Eventual result of this research may be a vaccine against measles. But there are immediate results which Columbia's efficient publicity department promptly caused Dr. Broadhurst to advocate. Said she: "Nurses and doctors will no longer be forced to wait until a rash or fever appears before they know whether a sore throat signifies merely a cold or presages the measles. They will now be able to place a specimen of mucus from nose and throat stained by nigrosin under a microscope and tell in a moment whether or not the virus bodies that cause the measles are present...
Hopeful of mending this situation, Mr. Rosten applied for an $1,800 Social Science Research Council field fellowship, for 16 months stalked Washington reporters at work, bent elbows with them at the National Press Club bar, came away from the Capital with a neo-scientific cross section of 127 (out of over 200) men who tell the country what the Government is doing...