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...Angeles next week the Nobel Laureate of the University of Chicago. Dr. Arthur Holly Compton hopes, if he has time, to say farewell to the Nobel Laureate of the California Institute of Technology, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. Accompanied by Mrs. Compton and their elder son Arthur Alan, he will start on a 20,000-mi. tour of Pacific mountain tops. To the tops of mountains in Panama, Peru, New Zealand, Hawaii and Alaska he will lug a 250-lb. machine to study the characteristics of the puzzling cosmic rays which Dr. Millikan has made his own. The study will supplement...
Whatever the cosmic rays are, Dr. Compton is betting the next six months of his life that he will learn enough actual facts about them better to describe the innermost construction of all matter, in the study of which he is one of the world's top-notchers...
...University of Chicago was worried about Dr. Compton for a while this winter. He is one of ten professors at Chicago who have been awarded Distinguished Service Professorships ($10,000 yearly minimum). President John Grier Hibben of Princeton is currently 70 and resigning and the Princeton trustees were pondering Dr. Compton as Dr. Hibben's successor. (Dr. Compton is one of three men who in all Princeton's history have won doctorates in physics summa cum laude. The others are Henry Norris Russell, Princeton astronomer, and Karl Taylor Compton [elder brother], president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology.) But young President...
...graduate schools, recently shown in the changes in the Harvard Engineering School, is evident, too, in the innovations at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For the first time the independence of the graduate school is recognized and it is given a separate administrative organization. The change, according to President Compton, is the result of the increasing emphasis on the graduate phase of engineering work...
...Cambridge, Mass, last week, members of the American Physical Society and of the Optical Society of America were given a first look at Massachusetts Institute of Technology's new spectroscopic laboratory. President Karl Taylor Compton of the Institute and Professor George Russell Harrison, who has charge of the new shop, showed the physicists about. The new building is constructed like and really is an icebox. The outer walls-4 ft. thick-are of brick, 8 in. of cork, an air space and concrete. Within that well-insulated casing is an inner structure of ten rooms. The inner building...