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...Theodore Swann, president of Southern...
While Professor Compton is having a high time abroad, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society and director of Philadelphia's Bartol Research Foundation, will take to the top of Mount Washington or Pike's Peak a cosmic ray "telescope" whose construction he revealed last week. It consists of a lead cylinder. At each end is a hollow steel sphere filled with nitrogen compressed
...level. Cosmic rays ionize the imprisoned nitrogen. If the telescope is pointed at a source of the rays the gas in one sphere should be ionized less than the gas in the other. If the cylinder is swung athwart the ray, ionization should be equal in both spheres. Dr. Swann plans to swing his "telescope" to and fro until he can judge whether atoms are dying in the stars (Jeans) or are aborning between the stars (Millikan...
...Swann's Courtesan, Dr. William Francis Gray Swann, president of the American Physical Society, looked waggish as he talked in ancient puns on "reality." In reality he was deadly serious. Said he: "Reality is the most alluring of all courtesans, for she makes herself what you would have her at the moment. But she is no rock on which to anchor your soul, for her substance is of the stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist...
...rathering" was his denunciation by name, as uninformed medically and unjust ethically, of Magazine Critics T. Swann Harding, F. C. Kelly, H. L. Mencken, the late J. A. Mitchell...