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...England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright spots when X-rays are diffracted by crystals. Father and son joined forces, undertook intensive study of X-ray diffraction. They not only measured the wave lengths of X-rays (thousands of times shorter than those of visible light) but also penetrated the secrets of atomic architecture in crystalline substances. For these achievements...
...police also reported that their investigations indicated a second uprising was planned by the Nazis, whose real leader, a mysterious Chief "X," was still at large. While police hunted Chief X and numerous missing Nazi members, the Chilean Congress decided to increase the size of the army, buy modern military equipment...
...Chapter X of the Chandler Act smooths out many of the flaws in famed Section 776 of the Bankruptcy Act. Two principal changes are that 1) a court, in corporate reorganizations involving liabilities of $250,000 or more, must appoint an independent and disinterested trustee; 2) a court may call upon SEC for advice in any corporate reorganizations, must do so if liabilities are over $3,000,000. The commission is thus given the duty of serving as the advocate of investors and of giving courts the benefit of impartial expert opinion. These advisory reports will also be sent...
Died. Hilda, 8, the Prospect Park Zoo's 3,000-lb. Indian elephant who fortnight ago was knocked into a 25-ft. moat by her mate; by shooting, after X-rays showed she would never recover from broken vertebrae; in Brooklyn, N. Y. Death came also to the U. S.'s only pangolin (TIME, Sept. 12). Cause: strangulation on a food morsel too big for its tiny mouth...
...Seth Barnes Nicholson, keen-eyed young graduate student at Lick Observatory, sighted Satellite IX. Last week the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced that Dr. Nicholson, still in California looking for new moons, had discovered dim, elusive Satellites X and XI with Mt. Wilson's 100-inch telescope.- "This discovery will rank as one of the great advances in astronomy of 1938," stated Director James Stohley of Philadelphia's Fels Planetarium. "There will be no hope of observing [the new satellites] except with the greatest telescopes...