Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Commander Oliver Stillingfleet Locker-Lampson, son of the poet Frederick Locker, was host to Albert Einstein eight months ago he was so convinced that Nazi agents would attempt to murder the benign German scientist that he mounted a guard of gamekeepers over him. Lately the blatant manifestations of black-shirted British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley have filled Commander Locker-Lampson with wild alarm. He rose in the House of Commons last week to introduce a bill that would not only deprive Sir Oswald of his uniform, but would strip the shirt from his distinguished mother, the very dignified Katharine...
...first of her sex to enter the stratosphere is the ambition of Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, wife of Professor Jean Piccard, twin brother of Stratonaut Auguste. A Bryn Mawr graduate, holder of a master's degree in chemistry from the University of Chicago, Mrs. Piccard is no amateur scientist. To win her license she must make three balloon flights with an instructor, one solo flight by day, one at night...
...history of education at University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies...
...station attendants Scientist Robbert A. Millikan said: "Why, they have improved the manners and the courtesy and the consideration of the American public more than all the colleges in the country...
...sold 20,000 copies in Britain, 33,000 in the U. S. Both books have been translated into a half-dozen languages. Aware that Einstein considers Eddington the foremost exponent of Relativity, many an impartial appraiser is inclined to give Eddington a slight edge over Jeans as a pure scientist. But the difference between Jeans's influence on the lay world and Eddington's is not in any small disparity of scientific reputation. Prime difference is that they see God differently...