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...still is, a nucleus surrounded by electrons. But in the 1920's, with the powerful searchlight of relativity illuminating the atomic field, it became apparent that the picture of the electron as a simple particle of negative electricity-that is, of matter-was not enough. Chicago's Compton (another Nobelman) showed that waves of high-frequency light could behave like particles. In 1924, Prince Louis de Broglie of France enunciated a theory that electrons could manifest themselves as waves...
Other addresses will be made by Dr. Victor S. Helser, author of "American Doctor's Odyssey," and by Dr. Karl Tayler Compton, President...
...business men actively engaged in distribution, had such headline speakers as President Percy Straus of R. H. Macy & Co., General R. E. Wood, president of Sears, Roebuck & Co., President Oswald Knauth of Associated Dry Goods Corp., Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden, Professor Paul H. Nystrom of Columbia University, President Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and not least of all, Secretary of State Cordell Hull. To garnish this group as chairman of the first day's luncheon session, Director Bloomfield had little difficulty in getting the services of James Roosevelt, who for his own reasons always likes to have...
Four distinguished U. S. scientists, Arthur H. Compton, Geologist Kirtley F. Mather, Astronomer Harlan T. Stetson, Psychologist Edward L. Thorndike, uttered hosannahs of approbation for a book The Advancing Front of Science* by George W. Gray, from which the above words are taken...
Purpose of the present committee, financed by a $50,000 grant from the Hays office and manned by such potent schoolmen as Johns Hopkins' President Isaiah Bowman, President Karl Taylor Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director Mark May of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, is to break this vicious circle by opening the vaults of Hollywood for school use. Four years ago broad-beamed Educator May and Dean Howard Le Sourd of the Boston University Graduate School set out to experiment in this direction by extracting morally helpful episodes from old feature films. Encouraged...