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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work & Money. Hard work, however, is the general rule at Cavendish, although the staffers sometimes knock off early in summer to play cricket. The staff numbers some 60 researchers, of whom per-haps ten leave every year for other posts or retirement. These are replaced by bright newcomers, half from Cambridge, half from outside. About 200 undergraduates studying physics also work at Cavendish. Its lecture halls are antiquated and barnlike, its benches are uncomfortable. All the buildings are old and ramshackle, except the Mond Laboratory for low-temperature research, for which Sir Robert Ludwig Mond, gas & oil tycoon and amateur...
Some $75,000 of Baron Austin's money will go for modernizing the lecture halls. A big new laboratory for research on the atom-with library, conference room and tea room-will eat up $500,000. Another $50,000 went into a 36-ft. high-voltage atom-smasher. This hurls atomic bullets at controlled energies up to 2,000,000 electron-volts. Still another $30,000 was laid out for a cyclotron-an atom-smashing machine of the type invented by the University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, which spirals atomic bullets up to huge speeds...
...many years Cavendish has conducted research on the ionosphere (radio mirror surrounding Earth) by means of reflected radio signals. This work is in charge of Edward V. Appleton. generally considered the world's No. 1 authority on the ionosphere, who first discovered that the radio mirror consists of two or more shifting layers...
...recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays are diffracted by crystals. Father and son joined forces, undertook intensive study of X-ray diffraction. They...
Sung-Nein Tsao, of Peiping, China, as Research Follow in Bacteriology and Immunology...