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...prizemen is Dr. Erwin Schrodinger, 46, who shares this year's award with Dr. Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac. Dr. Dirac is only 31, as is Dr. Werner Heisenberg, to whom went the belated 1932 award.* All three have been busy prying into the unimaginably small interior of the atom...
...author of Across the Gobi Desert. THE ROOSEVELT REVOLUTION, First Phase - Ernest K. Lindley - Viking ($2.50). A Washington correspondent analyzes the New Deal. THE GREAT OFFENSIVE-Maurice Hin-dus-Smith & Haas ($3). More about New Russia by the author of Humanity Uprooted and Red Bread. INSIDE THE ATOM-John Langdon-Davies-Harper ($2.50). By the author of The Future of Nakedness. WHAT EVERYONE WANTS TO KNOW ABOUT MONEY-edited by G. D. H. Cole -Knopj ($3). By a group of Oxford experts...
...that the corona, though mostly scattered sunlight, was partly self-luminous. What element made it so? Not knowing, they called it "coronium." As recently as last year, in a standard work on eclipses, "coronium" was treated with respect. The Menzel-Boyce report unmasks it as mostly oxygen in bizarre atomic metamorphoses. The normal oxygen atom has eight orbital electrons. Menzel & Boyce proceeded to imagine oxygen atoms in such a state of excitation that electrons could skip freely from one orbit to another. Such excited atoms, according to quantum theory, should have energy levels differing from each other by precise amounts...
...midst of the congeries of flaws, errors, and disagreeable but unavoidable institutions which distinguish this and every other University, Harvard possesses one minor atom which comes close to glory it is the Eliot House night lunch. This facility has been a success from the start, and for that it deserves commendation. The students grumble over the conduct of History instructors, over the state of the walks in the Yard, and over the tarnished statue of John Harvard; they vilify their professors, and heap contumely on the unbowed heads of the goodies; of all the aspects of the College to come...
...substance of the genes. Dr. Morgan surmises that they are single, or perhaps small clusters of, complex chemical molecules. His view of inheritance is purely mechanistic, his view of life purely materialistic. At its simplest, life to him is nothing more than a sunbeam jiggling on an atom of carbon...