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Second director was furry-visaged John William Strutt, Baron Rayleigh, who discovered the "noble" gases (Argon, Helium, etc.) and made the most accurate contemporary determinations of the ohm and the ampere. He got a Nobel Prize 20 years after he retired from the Cavendish directorship. Third director was Sir Joseph John Thomson, who held the post for 35 years, discovered the electron while studying electric discharge in gases. Still alive, a Grand Old Man of 82, Sir Joseph strolls about in a black bowler with a cane clutched behind his back, attends "hall" (dinner) once a week, still putters...
...Cambridge, England, last week, where the British Association for the Advancement of Science was assembled for its summer meeting, two distinguished scientists were much in evidence. One was Robert John Strutt, Baron Rayleigh (pronounced "ray-lee"), an authority on radioactivity, son of the late' great Rayleigh who was best known for his discovery of the "noble" gases (helium, argon, etc.). This year, Lord Rayleigh, 63, is the B. A. A. S. president, and therefore was expected to make British Science's annual philosophical discourse, avoiding grubby details. In his address, Lord Ray leigh defended Science against the charge...
Born. To the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, Duchess of Norfolk, 22, England's youngest duchess, and Bernard Marmaduke Fitzalan-Howard. Duke of Norfolk, 30. England's Premier Duke and Earl; their first child, a daughter; in London...
While his new wife, the former Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt (TIME, Feb. 8), was opening a bridge across the Trent River, the Duke of Norfolk confided to a British journalist how he met her. "I went out hunting with the Quorn hounds just over a year ago, and fell off my horse. It was entirely my own fault, but a certain lady, who is now beside me, stopped to pick me up. I was told afterwards it was the only time in her life she had stopped for anybody who had fallen off in the hunting field. . . . She is feeling...
...amiable, phlegmatic, intuitively shrewd young Roman Catholic recently and rapidly wooed a pretty, alert, decisive young Protestant who is every bit as horsy as His Grace-and in all England there is no horsier aristocrat or plebeian than Norfolk-the Hon. Lavinia Mary Strutt, 20, daughter of the 3rd Baron...