Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-three teaching and research appointments for the present academic year were made public today by Harvard University. The men, the capacity in which they will serve, and the terms of their appointments, are as follows...
Sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation which has research departments not only at Yale and Harvard but at Princeton and Columbia Universities as well, the record examination is "primarily for the purpose of obtaining an estimate of the attainments in the more important fields of knowledge...
...story of his wanderings and extraordinary discoveries, called The World Was My Garden, was published last week.* Fairchild retired from active service in 1935. Now 69, he lives in Florida. In his early research years at Washington, he met and hobnobbed with many celebrities of that time, including Samuel Langley, William Crawford Gorgas, and Alexander Graham Bell, whose daughter Marian he married. His writing discloses some classic examples of pedagogical quaintness...
...goodness of living" in various U. S. cities. Lately, while investigating "the pecuniary rewards of great abilities," Professor Thorndike took a look at the pay of top-notch scientists employed in industry. In American Men of Science he found 72 industrial savants whose names were starred for distinguished research (by vote of their colleagues). He then hunted up as many of their salaries as he could find in the Treasury report to the Ways & Means Committee...
...Langmuir and X-ray Expert William David Coolidge of General Electric Co. received $16.000 and $21,500 respectively. General Motors' celebrated Charles Franklin ("Boss") Kettering, acknowledged father of the automobile self-starter, did not figure in the investigation because he, curiously enough, has received no star for distinguished research...