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...along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, 40, preacher's son. professor at the University of Chicago. Although the Laureates spoke alternately, their speeches had the effect of dramatic dialog...
...Nothing has happened which alters in any essential way the views expressed in my last comprehensive report," said Dr. Millikan stridently. What had happened included: Dr. Millikan's sending electroscopes by airplane to measure cosmic rays over Peru, the U. S., Canada; Dr. Compton's journeying with an electroscope around the Pacific and over North America from Mexico City to north of Churchill on Hudson Bay; two young men killed carrying a cosmic ray scope up Mt. McKinley; Professor Auguste Piccard & aide ballooning into the stratosphere ten miles above Switzerland; Professor Erich Regener sending a free balloon with...
...Langmuir's work which earned the award was not confined to 1932. And ready to dispute such a title would be the friends of Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. 1927 Nobel Prize winner, who traveled 50,000 mi. in 1932 researching the cosmic...
...gained the aid of a part-Mexican woman who lived on the ranch. They got a guard drunk, seized his gun, acquired an automobile, escaped. Sherwood said he would go to Canada, then to Europe where ousted Mayor Walker is living on the Riviera with his friend Betty Compton...
MACKENZIE (Compton) Sinister Street. In Two Valumes...