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Heading the list of Nobel winners will be Albert Einstein who will discuss some aspects of physics. The others are Neils Bohr, physics; Hans Fischer, chemistry; Arthur H. Compton, physics; Sir Frederick G. Hopkins, physiology and medicine; Robert A. Millikan, physics; Friedrich Bergius, chemistry; August Krogh, physiology and medicine; Theodore Svedberg, chemistry; Otto Warburg, physiology and medicine; Karl Landsteiner, physiology and medicine; Edgar D. Adrian, physiology and medicine; Werner Heisenberg, physics; and Hans Spemann, physiology and medicine...
Others who will take part are President-emeritus Lowell and Sir Arthur Eddington from the University of Cambridge. There will be five symposia during the two weeks. Papers on the physical sciences and biology will be read in the first two. The third symposium on "Factors Determining Human Behavior" will collaborate different aspects of biological sciences, social sciences, and the humanities...
...human being, Sir Thomas Walker Hobart Inskip is a large, lugubrious, burly man with a commanding voice and manner. These may be qualities of value in standing up to the truculent British generals, admirals and air marshals of the Committee of Imperial Defense. The Prime Minister not only appointed Sir Thomas his deputy last week but also raised him to full Cabinet rank as Britain's first Secretary of State for Coordination of Defense...
...House of Commons lobbies a remark frequently heard was that this appointment was a "Baldwin bumble" and that Sir Thomas may be expected to "out-bumble Baldwin." Particularly scathing was Winston Churchill, whose friends had ardently angled to get him the appointment. Silently disappointed were such publicly groomed aspirants as Sir Samuel Hoare and the Air Minister, Viscount Swinton...
...Sir Thomas was a thumping $135,000 as Attorney General. He will receive only $25,000 per year in his new post, where he will have a major voice in the spending of Empire billions for armament (see p 25). A good coordinator would equalize the amount of "drag" or "pull" possessed by each of the three fighting services and traditionally used to warp Government decisions in favor of that service. The British Admiralty naturally has always been strongest in these contests, the Royal Air Force has shot up recently to second place in "drag" and the Army makes...