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Winners included: Thomas N. Blodgett, David C. Campbell, Frank A. Crosson, Paul H. Epstein, Charles R. Halpern, Todd G. Lee, Gilbert W. Merkx, Richard J. V. C. Pescosolido and Roger D. Zeeman...
...generally supposed to have a magnetic field more powerful than that of the earth. The scientific reasoning: the lines in the sun's spectrum seem to show the "Zeeman effect," splitting in two like the lines in a laboratory light source affected by magnetism. But Dr. Martin A. Pomerantz of the Bartol Foundation had long doubted the sun's magnetic field. Last summer he set out to disprove the theory by the apparently far-fetched method of catching cosmic rays with sounding balloons near the earth's north magnetic pole...
...much too feeble to reach the earth from outer space if they had to break through the magnetic field attributed to the sun. Therefore, Dr. Pomerantz announced last week, the sun must be bare of permanent magnetism, and the physicists must find some other way to explain its Zeeman effect...
Died. Professor Pieter Zeeman, 78, Dutch winner of 1902's Nobel Prize in physics (for studies of light under magnetism); in Amsterdam. In 1933 he was preferred to Albert Einstein by the electors of the French Academy of Sciences...
Still in the same linear method, but with constantly growing understanding of its limits, are the early Dutchmen, Zeeman and van Velde, who introduced the water of canals and the texture of buildings. Much better is Jacob Ruysdael, who brought into etching his mastery of tree forms and fields. Pure landscape, however, in line etching, seems finally attained by Claude Lorrain...