Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard astronomer is the first American scientist to be admitted to the Swedish society...
...after weeks of anxious waiting, succor arrived. Today at ten o'clock he will go to Emerson H there to hear Professor Sarton lecture on Pasteur. The Vagabond doesn't know much about Pasteur, but he has a vague and tenuous idea that he was a doctor, or a scientist or a medical man of some ability. He also had something to do with pasteurized milk, which the Vagabond always believed in his youth meant milk obtained from cows who grew up in a pasture. Quite frankly the Vagabond is sorry about this, but in the interests of truth...
...finance it for the next three years. Its president is Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology; its vice president, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; its board chairman, Banker Norman H. Davis. Executive committee and active members include many a famed educator, publicist, business man, scientist. Director is Levering Tyson who has' retired as head of Columbia University's Department of Home Study to take...
...size of the tube whose description won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's $1,000 prize. If Professor Compton does eventually create or break up atoms, next great problem will be: How to use the energy thus released? All this exposition showed the pragmatic scientist in Professor Compton. He also took pains to show himself a Presbyterian idealist by declaring his creed: "I believe that the very existence of the amazing world of the atom points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything...
...Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...