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Professor P. W. Bridgeman '04. Rumford medalist, and a physicist famous for his research in high pressure, is at present working on the viscosity of mercury but stated, when asked whether he had subjected any atoms to hydraulic compression that he had limited his activities in this field to pressure of many tons upon single metal crystals: At Yale, a pressure physicist has succeeded in making a fat square atom into a long thin atom by means of a pile driver, but the significance of his experiment has not thrilled the scientific world...
General Fries, who is an experienced engineer and the man who built up the Chemical Warfare Service from its beginning as the Gas and Flame Division of the engineers Corps, spoke on "Recent Developments in chemical Warfare." The speaker was introduced by Professor Edwin H. Hall, Rumford Professor of Physics, Emeritus, who reminded his audience that every man present might have to decide his course of conduct in reference to the next war, and would have to choose among pacifism, diplomatic peace, and military preparedness as means of preventing future conflicts...
Professor G. W. Pierce, A.M. 01, Rumford Professor of Physics, and Director of Cruft Memorial Laboratory in the University will give the second of a series of lectures under the auspices of the Physics Department, this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock, in Jefferson Physical Laboratory on "Vibrations of High Frequency with Applications to Radio Communication, with Demonstrations...
Other American medals of importance in the field of the physical and engineering sciences are the Elliott Cresson Medal, of the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, and the Rumford Medal. In Britain there are also the Hughes Medal of the Royal Society, the Bessemer Medal of the Iron and Steel Institute, and the John Scott Medal...
This evening at 8 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall, Professor G. W. Pierce '99 will give an illustrated lecture on "Radiotelephony", under the auspices of the Harvard Engineering Society. Professor Pierce, who holds the chair of Rumford Professor of Physics and who is Director of the Cruft High Tension and Radio Laboratory, is a recognized authority on electric waves and electrical oscillations. During his long career as a professor in the University, he has contributed much to the practical application of this field of science...