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...years ago Professor Arthur Holly Compton of the University of Chicago aimed some x-rays at a crystal, that is, a conglomerate of pool balls. If the x-rays were waves, as had been the general conception, the waves would have wriggled between the atoms without displacing them and without being changed by them. It would have been as though a bucket of water had been swished across the pool table baize...
Karl Taylor Compton, president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology . . . Sc.D...
Frederick Albert Saunders, Ph.D., Professor of Physics, was announced last night by Dr. Carl Compton, head of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as having been named a member of the governing board of the new Science Institute, of which Dr. Compton is the chairmnan...
...governing board is composed of three members of each of these four societies; Dr. Compton and Professor Saunders both represent the Society of Physics. During the summer a permanent, full-time executive secretary will be chosen from the board, under whose supervision the work of publication, and of the organization of smaller committees will be placed. The coats of preliminary organization, including the establishment of permanent offices, forms, and incidental expenses for the year, have been underwritten by the Chemical Foundation of New York City...
Significance. Professor Piccard's prime purpose was to determine whether cosmic rays were, as believed, ten times more powerful in the stratosphere than upon reaching the earth through the atmosphere. Dr. Arthur Holly Compton, winner of the 1927 Nobel Prize for physics, said in Chicago: ''Such measurements have been made before with sounding balloons, but the conditions under which Professor Piccard made his observations would be much more satisfactory." He expected the results to prove "very valuable" to science...