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...Stetson's discussion of the atmosphere beyond the reach of man-carrying balloons will be based on a great deal of personal experience. He spent several years studying in the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory, and in the last ten years has witnessed six eclipses from vantage points ranging from Norway to Sumatra...
...will be followed on December 4 by Harian T. Stetson, research associate in Geophysics, who will speak on "Exploring the Stratosphere". Dr. Stetson has been busy for the last few years chasing eclipses, having gone with expeditions to California in 1923, Connecticut in 1925, Sumatra in 1926, Norway in 1927, Malaya in 1929, and Maine...
Captain Stevens carried on the ascent a specially constructed spectroscope, the details and mounting of which were planned in connection with Dr. Stetson among others...
...Stetson explained that the reason all the sky was dark at such a height above the ground was that there were no air molecules or dust particles in the air to diffuse the sun's rays. Thus the only place the explorers could see light in the sky was by looking directly into the sun, which had the appearance of a searchlight. They were on the upper side of what we or dinarily call the blue sky, in the words of Dr. Stetson...
...Stetson explained that there are two conflicting theories, Arthur Compton, of the University of Chicago, believing that cosmic rays are chiefly made up of electrons, and Millikan believing that they are chiefly made up of photons, bundles of light energy...