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...which will encompass all Nature. He has laid promising foundations (TIME, July 15, 1935). Other work on the problem has been done by Britain's Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac, German Exile Max Born, France's Elie Cartan. Last week another approach was suggested by Dr. George David Birkhoff of Harvard...
...Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"-the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron. The disturbance created in the fluids by a particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...
...University officers who are ex-officio members of the Council are: President James B. Conant; G. D. Birkhoff, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; G. H. Chase, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Richard M. Gummere, Chairman, Committee on Admission; A. Chester Hanford, Dean of Harvard College; Delmar Leighton, Dean of Freshmen; Geoffrey W. Lewis, Secretary of the Council; and A. F. Whittem, Director of University Extension
...patronesses were Mrs. Walter E. Clark, Mrs. G. D. Birkhoff, Mrs. Albert C. Hanford, Mrs. Huntington Brown, Mrs. M. H. Stone, Mrs. W. K. Jordan, Mrs. E. F. Langley, and Mrs. W. P. Maddox...
George D. Birkhoff '05, Perkins Professor of Mathematics and Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences was yesterday appointed Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences beginning next September for three years. He succeeds Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Professor of English and Master of Leverett House, who has been on sabbatical leave during the past half year...