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Professor E. J. Berg, head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Union College, and consulting engineer for the General Electric Company, will speak at the University Friday and Saturday on "Heaviside's Operational Calculus" and "Personal Reminiscences of Charles Steinmetz." The lectures will be in Pierce Hall at 4.30 o'clock on Friday and 12 o'clock on Saturday...
Charles Proteus Steinmetz, bearded, grotesque, labored in an undershirt. Wrapped in clouds of fragrant cigar smoke this hunchbacked Thor dreamed and made possible artificial thunderbolts. This week in Schenectady a dapper, clean-shaven man with the face of a witty and successful banker delivered before the American Institute of Electrical Engineers the Steinmetz lecture, instituted in honor of his late fellow scientist...
...Robert Andrew Millikan, famed physicist, first isolated the electron, detected the cosmic pulse that throbs in the solar systems of broad-girthed planets and infinitesimal atoms alike. Like Master Electrician Steinmetz, this man of twinkling blue-grey eyes and sparkling wit knows how to make scientific complexities charming as well as awesome. For weeks past in the North, South, East and West he has lectured to make laymen see the unity of movement and purpose in the cosmos enveloping the universe...
...determination of the velocities of electrons discharged from metals under the influence of ultraviolet light, the polarization of light from incandescent surfaces, the extension of the ultraviolet spectrum, the laws of reflection of gas molecules, the Brownian movement in gasses and the absorption of X-rays. But, like Scientist Steinmetz, he sees no conflict between science and religion. The blood of staunch, God-fearing New Englanders runs in his veins. His father was a Congregational minister. Queried about the cosmic mind, Dr. Millikan retorted: "Why not say 'God'? . . . I have never known a thinking...
Sirs: As you state (TIME, Feb. 28, p. 24) few doctors abandon medicine to become famed in other fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...