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...years ago Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago aimed some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
...Professor Compton's experiments, the x-rays bounced off the collection of atoms which were the crystal. They rebounded in a peculiar way. The more glancing their blow at the crystal, the longer the x-rays became. That indicated that x-rays were pellets moving with stupendous rapidity. They were like a swift flow of cue balls glancing off the triangle of balls. For his experiments Professor Compton won a 1927 Nobel Prize...
...moment of triumph. Some 50,000 persons were at Kastrup Airport, among them Hoiriis's mother, also among them two of Hillig's friends from Liberty, N. Y. Wreaths were hung about their necks, there were parades, medals, a great banquet at the Town Hall. King Christian X made Pilot Hoiriis a Knight of the ancient Order of Danebroge. But if Hoiriis felt half as proud as Otto Hillig, he failed to show...