Word: caltech
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...volt tube. Five billion dollars worth of radium (20 Ib.) would be necessary to produce gamma rays equal in power to Dr. Millikan's X-rays. The entire U. S. medical profession today possesses only four million dollars worth of radium. Practical use of the Caltech apparatus has not yet been demonstrated. Before it is used on human beings, plants and animals will be subjected to the rays to test their effect on living tissue...
...physicists had much to talk about last week. They learned that six weeks hence three of the world's most famed physicists, all Nobel prize winners, were to meet in the U. S. at California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") in Pasadena for a scientific chat. One of the three, Dr. Albert Einstein, has a long way to travel. On Dec. 2, he, his wife Frau Elsa Einstein and his research assistant Dr. Walter Mayer (TIME, Oct. 27) will go aboard the Belgenland, have a month's boat ride to California via Panama. Frau Einstein will act as guard...
Great have been donations to Caltech: The Rockefellers' general education board $3,000,000; the Carnegie groups $250,000 and more; Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics $350,000. Southern California Edison Co. gave a laboratory. General Electric is giving the great quartz mirror at cost. Within reason Caltech can get what it needs from U. S. eleemosinary and industrial institutions and its enthusiastic personal backers. Its preeminence as a research and teaching school, the high-grade of its staff and the prestige of its trustees makes this possible. Twenty years ago there was a Throop College...
Robert Andrews Millikan, Ph. D. (three times), LL. D. (two times), Sc. D. (ten times), Nobel laureate, from the University of Chicago, to be chairman of Caltech executive council and director of its Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics...
William Bennett Munro, Ph. D., LL. D., Borrowed End from Harvard, to guide Caltech's division of the humanities, which seeks to make the students generally cultured and prevent them from graduating into ditch-digging, draughting, or plumbing. Useful to Professor Munro's students is the Henry E. Huntington. Library & Art Gallery at nearby San Marino, an-other world-important California institution founded by another rich Californian and directed by another leading U. S. educator, Max Farrand...