Word: bartol
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Starting this week, the Army Air Forces, in cooperation with the National Geographic Society, will make a series of long flights in a B-29 specially equipped to study cosmic rays. Scientific boss of the flights will be Dr. W. F. G. Swann, Director of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation...
...Grace graduated Magna Cum Lande in 1930, after attending Andover Academy. He returned to Harvard some years later and obtained his Master's degree in 1935 and a Ph.D. in 1938. A resident of Milton, Lt. Grace was married in 1935 to Miss Priscilla Bartol, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. John W. Bartol, also of Milton. His wife survives...
Last week suave, British-born William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pa., suggested that even the notion of charged particles might be jettisoned. He preferred to think of the atom as just a region of "wiggling knottiness," a something free to behave in any way it likes. In psychology, the behaviorists and mechanists refuse to worry about what the human mind really is, study it as a series of behavior patterns. Dr. Swann fancies atomic behaviorism...