Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pasteur" the French interpretation of the life of the great scientist, leaving out all romance, will be presented today at 1.40, 4.00, 6.30, and 8.30 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration under the auspices of the French Talking Films Committee. Performances will be repeated at the same times on Friday...
...perseverance, and the simple kindliness so ably portrayed by Muni jibe nicely with the popular conception of what the quite genius must have been. The plot as well as the character keep a close grip on fact. A vivid notion is given of the stern battle of a humble scientist against ignorance, fantasy, and professional bigotry. Coupled with the accuracy, however, there is a most judicious selection of dramatic incident. Foremost in this line is the scene in which Pasteur is compelled by circumstance to call upon his proud, disdainful opponent, Dr. Charbonnet (Fritz Leiber) to attend the birth...
...gets Leonie involved in a degrading alliance with an unscrupulous psychiatrist who professes to be of the same breed as the "marauders" who amassed the Wyler fortune and hence the proper custodian for it. The only character in End of Summer untouched by the money is a toplofty old scientist who characterizes the rest of the cast as "the great mass of the uninformed and the inexact." It makes no difference to him, he declares, "whether they prattle on full bellies or prattle on empty bellies...
...Medal, awarded every three years by the Societe Franchise des Electriciens: for contributions to pure science and for services on international commit tees whose efforts culminated last sum mer in the adoption of the centimetre-gram-second system of units by the Inter national Electrotechnical Commission. First U. S. scientist to receive the Mascart Medal, venerable Dr. Kennelly hoped its bestowal would mark a closer liaison be tween U. S. and French scholarship. Frank Walker Caldwell, 46, Hamilton Standard Propeller Co. engineer; the Sylvanus Albert Reed Award of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences ($250 and certificate) : for his development...
First Finder. Like a good scientist Dr. Compton thought it best to begin at the beginning: "In order to place the results of the recent studies of cosmic rays in appropriate perspective, let us recall very briefly their early history. It is well known how at the beginning of the present century. . . ." At the beginning of the present century Geitel of Germany, experimenting with a quartz-fibre electroscope, noticed that for no apparent reason the air in his instrument gradually became more electrified or ionized. Later experimenters discovered that thick screens of lead or water shut out some...