Word: physicist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Robert Andrew Millikan, famed physicist, first isolated the electron, detected the cosmic pulse that throbs in the solar systems of broad-girthed planets and infinitesimal atoms alike. Like Master Electrician Steinmetz, this man of twinkling blue-grey eyes and sparkling wit knows how to make scientific complexities charming as well as awesome. For weeks past in the North, South, East and West he has lectured to make laymen see the unity of movement and purpose in the cosmos enveloping the universe...
...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...
...first board of regents consulted leading contemporary scientists-Faraday, Bache, Silliman -;who unanimously averred that Joseph Henry, natural historian and physicist at Princeton, was "without a peer in American science." Joseph Henry relinquished his private researches and gave 32 years, as the Institution's first secretary, to making its charter into a reality...
Americanization is a splendid thing. Out of young immigrants it produces Secretary J. J. Davis' Editor Boks, Physicist Pupins. But there was an old school of immigrants who resisted Americanization while they contributed with varying degrees of importance, richness and intimacy to the life of the country. Last week a reporter for the New York Evening Post found a member of that school and told his story...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...