Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Mrs. Margot Einstein Marianoff of Princeton, N. J., daughter of Scientist Professor Albert Einstein, by a preliminary decree from Dmitri Marianoff, writer, on the grounds of desertion...
...Unusual among biographies of parents for its combination of tenderness, good judgment and good writing (excellently transmitted in Vincent Sheean's translation), this is an unforgettable first full-length biography of the delicate, blonde Polish girl who rose from a governess to the world's greatest woman scientist. Famed for her hard-won discovery of radium, Madame Curie here emerges as most deserving of fame for her incorruptible stand against cashing in on it. Known for an emotional self-discipline as strict asher public reserve, her response to the accidental death of her husband-collaborator is told...
...YOUNG MEN ARE COMING!-M. P. Shiel- Vanguard ($2.50). High-pressure fantasy about an English scientist who is taken for a ride through space by some unpuritanical interplanetary visitors, recovers his youth, gets mixed up in an attempt to establish a fascist government in Great Britain-an odd, involved book, written in an exclamatory prose, that is a little like H. G. Wells's political-scientific satires, a little like James Branch Cabell's arch allegories...
...question of how much effect sunspots have on human affairs has long occupied speculative minds. It is now known that sunspots influence some terrestrial phenomena, including the earth's weather and magnetic field, but beyond that not many scientists have ventured. Thus it means more when one scientist with impeccable credentials declares that sunspots may have a physiological and emotional influence on mankind than when a thousand astrologers and other cultists affirm flatly that they...
Another way in which human physiology and psychology may be affected by sunspots is by means of ions. These are 'electrified particles in the air, created mostly by ultraviolet radiation. A German scientist at Frankfort carried out experiments which convinced him that an excess of positively charged ions in the air causes fatigue, dizziness and headache; that an excess of negatively charged ions induces exhilaration. Confirming results were obtained by Professor Constantin Yaglou of the Harvard School of Public Health...