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...Lohr's ideas of popular science were unpopular with many top-notch scientists. Coldly received last week was his definition of the object of science & industry: "to supply better goods cheaper." Sniffed scholarly Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, dean of physical sciences at University of Chicago: "Faraday, as he discovered the laws of electricity, which are basic to electrical engineering, was not concerned with making better things cheaper. . . . A tragedy has occurred in the cultural life of our city...
...retirement in 1936, an ardent Naziphile, guest in Germany of Hitler, Göring and Gestapo Chief Himmler, head of The Link (British pro-Nazi cell), was a dangerous character. They found and arrested him at his home in Roehampton, jailed also his half-German wife and their son, Compton...
...British Army in World War I, is a cousin of Lieut. General Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Staff of the British Army. In a florid, passionate speech on "Science, Civilization and Faith," he lashed out at a group of 500 eminent scientists, headed by Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicage, who had sent a "peace resolution" to President Roosevelt...
...financial resources and the immense productive capacity of American industry." > M. I. T.'s President Karl Taylor Comn-ton: "I believe that the policies of pacifism and isolationism . . . are in no small degree responsible for today's tragic ruin of the hopes of 20 years ago." President Compton announced that M. I. T., which in 1914 started the first course in aeronautical engineering in the U. S., was engaged in several important research projects for U. S. defense, would soon build a laboratory for research on airplanes with a $100,000 gift from General Motors' Alfred...
...Five hundred members of the American Association of Scientific Workers-among them University of Chicago's famed Professors Arthur Compton and Anton Carlson-petitioned President Roosevelt to keep the U. S. out of war. To the President promptly went counter-petitions, urging help to the Allies, from Albert Einstein, scientists at Princeton, Harvard and California Tech...