Word: scientists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When a pure-hearted scientist meets a phenomenon which he cannot explain, he humbly admits his ignorance, asserts his hope that future Science may be able to explain all things. But many a scientist of high standing and great ability is quick to discredit what he cannot explain...
...chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From 1918 to 1923 he was in charge of all helium work in the U. S. Bureau...
Most contributors to Science (weekly) are staid men who avail themselves of the magazine's columns to write polite letters of criticism concerning the ideas in their fellow scientists' heads. In last week's issue, however, was printed with editorial hesitancy and apologies a letter from "An 'Umble Scientist"-anonymous because the author implied he was hoping for an appointment to the Federal Power Commission-criticizing Herbert Clark Hoover, President of the U. S. "Most scientific men," wrote an 'umble scientist, "were delighted when for the first time since George Washington an engineer became President...
Died. Professor John William Burgess, 86, political scientist, Civil War veteran, founder in 1880 of Columbia University's School of Political Science and dean until 1912 of its faculty, first Roosevelt Professor of American History and Institutions (1906-07) at the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin; in Brookline, Mass...
Books. Anyone who reads Spanish should read these outstanding Cuban .books: Novelist Cirilo Villaverde's Cecilia Valdes; Poet Jose Maria Heredia's Niagara; Scientist Carlos de la Torre's Historia Natural de Cuba...