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Then came the climax of the evening-while 300 guests peppily applauded, the principal speaker was introduced. He was none other than crusty, white-haired Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 81, CalTech's famed physicist and Nobel Prizewinner, and therefore sufficiently a man of parts to do what a lot of long-suffering after-dinner speakers only tell their wives they wish they had done. Millikan rose with the air of a man who had been bound to a chair in a locked bank vault and said: "My definition of an educated person is one who can concentrate...
...CalTech's annual report, President DuBridge pins much of the blame for the sad plight of basic research on a "confused" policy of the Federal Government, which has left "the support of science . . . largely with those [Government] agencies whose primary functions are military." As a result, basic science is fighting a losing battle for funds, and "there is increasing pressure to extend to basic science the secrecy restrictions which necessarily pervade military weapon development . . . An excellent way to stifle science is to cut off its sources of support. A still better way is to suppress its freedom...
When engineers let their imaginations go-in a properly professional manner-they are apt to think about rockets, whose limit is above the sky. Last week a Manhattan meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers heard Professor Hsue-shen Tsien, Chinese-born rocket expert from Caltech, on the prospects in rocketeering. Most of Dr. Tsien's paper was technical, e.g., how to keep the walls of combustion chambers from melting. But his conclusion was clear and startling: present-day technology is capable of building a transcontinental rocket ship...
Such great telescopes as the 200-incher on Mt. Palomar see only tiny patches of sky. They need a more wide-eyed instrument to tell them where to look. Last week CalTech and the National Geographic Society announced a joint project to map the whole sky in search of interesting objects for big telescopes to study in detail. The society will supply the funds; CalTech, which runs Palomar Observatory, will supply the Schmidt telescope to do the mapping...
...Fritz Zwicky, astronomer, physicist and rocket expert of Caltech, has developed such an engine for the U.S. Navy, which presumably hopes to use it in torpedoes or in anti-submarine devices. The Navy is so excited about it that it won't allow Swiss-born Astronomer Zwicky to open his mouth on the subject. It has also warned Aerojet Engineering Corp. of Azusa, Calif., which is working on the device, to keep it quiet...