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...argon atom the inner and middle electron groups showed as one blurred ring, but separate from the outer group. The images were composite photographs of billions of atoms resolved into single pictures by photographing a revolving plate the shape of which was determined by x-ray diffraction. Though indirect, complex and laborious, the method is quite as legitimate as ordinary photography, according to the exhibitor, and the effective magnification is 200,000,000-to-1. This first visual confirmation of electron distribution theory was provided and explained by the University of Chicago's Dr. Arthur Holly Compton...
Before they could reach that conclusion even with the powerful wave mathematics developed by Germany's Erwin Schrodinger, Drs. George Braxton Pegram, John R. Dunning and Isidor Isaac Rabi had to lead their particles like circus animals through a complex series of hoops & hurdles. Beryllium powder was placed in a glass tube containing the radioactive gas radon. Alpha particles from the radon knocked neutrons out of the beryllium. First hurdle was a metal ring which deflected part of the neutron beam toward a cylindrical detection chamber less than an inch across, a half-inch deep. The chamber...
...Dartmouth researchers are not yet sure of aniseikonia's cause. They think it may be some malformation of the front part of the eye, or a larger number of light-sensitive cones in one retina than in the other. To detect the condition they have devised a complex instrument of peepholes, dots and lights, called the Ophthalmo-Eikonometer. To correct the condition they, and American Optical Co., have developed "iseikonic spectacles" with miniature telescope lenses to balance images...
...forthcoming discovery is expected to give the final and complete formulae for chlorophyll A and chlorophyll B, two plant materials of extremely complex nature whose exact composition has never been accurately ascertained. At present the two leading theories as to its composition are those of Hans Fischer of Munich, and of President Conant. Mr. Conant's theory was advanced in 1932; and for his research he was awarded two medals, the William H. Nichols Medal and the Charles F. Chandler Medal...
...values of life. He further believes that Christianity, ideally, seizes the essence of human life and ought therefore to be eternal. It may be destroyed, he emphatically warns, by entangling itself with a particular account of matters of fact, matters irrelevant to its ideal significance. Thereon hangs a more complex problem. The O'Neill drama attempts to express this ideal significance in relation to one man's emotions. O'Neill has gone along with Santayana and T. S. Eliot, towards a general reconsideration of the religious problem...