Word: research
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...work in the ionosphere ties in with the research of Professor Harry R. Mimno. Mimno is sending short-wave radio beams into the sky, to study how they bounce off the upper layers of the air. What he finds may change the future of radio transmission...
Holt heads one of the dozen or so research projects that the Department of Physics and the Department of Engineering Sciences are now working on. With the help of graduate assistants, he is trying to solve this cosmic whodunit and thus win another battle in Harvard's war against the unknown...
Both of these men are working under Navy contracts, like most of the research physicists in the University. The contracts have been a gold-mine to the science labs, for the departments themselves have enough cash for only two or three projects...
Navy Contract Number One has gone to Professor Emory L. Chafee for research in electronics. One of Chafee's jobs is to invent new kinds of vacuum tubes--he is now working on one that spins a light wave around a beam of electrons. The two interact to strengthen an electric current...
During the war Emmons helped design and construct the Army's first large supersonic wind tunnel, which was used for research on bombs, projectiles and guided mission. At present he is consultant to several groups conducting research for the armed forces...