Word: stetson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...star light as it passes near the gravitational field of the sun has been verified to the utmost satisfaction of all scientists by the recent measurement of the photographic plates taken by the Lick Observatory Expedition to Australia in the fall of 1922", said Professor H. T. Stetson in commenting on the recently published results of the solar eclipse expedition of 11922, sent under the auspices of the Lick Observatory to Wallal in northwester Australia, a point on the path of totality...
...present," concluded Professor Stetson, "the theory satisfactorily accounts for the irregular processional motion of the orbit of Mercury, and for the displacement of starlight passing through the sun's magnetic field on its way to the earth. If the Einstein theory of relativity is conclusively established, as no doubt it will be, the change in human thinking caused will be as great as that upheaval caused by Copernicus in substituting the heliocentric for the geocentric system of planetary motion, or, in other words, in maintaining that the sun and not the earth is the center of the solar system...
...following members of the sub-committee will graduate in June; A. R. Balsam '23, G. T. Barker '23, R. F. Bradford '23, B. DeL. Nash '23, and H. C. Stetson...
...guest and one of the speakers at the fifty-seventh annual dinner of the Harvard Club of New York City tonight. The Honorable Elihu Root, former Secretary of State, will be the guest of honor and chief speaker. Other speakers at the dinner will include the Reverend C. R. Stetson '94 and Mr. Langdon P. Marvin '98, president of the Associated Harvard Clubs...
...clock--"The Gyroscopic Compass" by Professor H. T. Stetson, Astronomical Laboratory. (Astronomy...