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...James's work is not quite the sort which wins a Nobel Prize in physics nowadays. The Nobel tendency in recent years has been to reward workers with the sub-atomic-X-ray effects (Taman, Compton), wave mechanics (de Broglie), electron count (Millikan), atomic structure (Bohr), quantum hypothesis (Planck), forces (Einstein). Sir James has the mathematical baggage and creative imagination requisite for joining that group. But he applies himself to descriptions of the universe and its relatively minute stellar components. It was for that work that the Franklin Institute deemed him worthy of U. S. Physics' top medal...
...Much Promise? Arthur Holly Compton (U. of Chicago) asked: "Is a girl smoking and listening to jazz from a loud speaker what the great electrical pioneers have been working for. ... Is our science any more likely to last than the science of the ancient Greeks? Democritus thought he had solved the problem as to what, the world is made of and how. Yet around his atoms was staged the first great fight between science and philosophy. And Socrates and Plato, the opponents of science, won that fight. Greek science failed, though the civilization based upon it survived. Was this...
...spoke volubly of her and her husband's affairs: "Charges accusing Jim of political discrepancy are about as ridiculous as rumors of his association with Betty Compton [British-born musicomedienne with whom the Mayor's name has been repeatedly coupled]. . . . The Compton affair is not worth commenting upon. Everyone in public office must go through the same ordeal unfortunately...
Divorced. Betty Compton, 24, musicomedienne (Oh, Kay!, Fifty Million Frenchmen), friend of Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker; from Edward Duryea Dowling, cinema dialog director whom she had married secretly in Manhattan's Carlton House 33 days prior (TIME, March 2 ), from whom she became estranged two days later (TIME, March 16); in Cuernavaca, Mexico, after "a day or two" residence. Grounds: "cruelty, personal violence, refusal to provide maintenance." Said the New York Daily Mirror: "An attempt at suicide preceded Miss Compton's marriage . . . Dowling was an interlude . . . from which the actress emerged when it reached the ears...
...centre boils, he might do what he wished with electrons and protons. At that temperature matter's subunits dance around each other and coalesce as atoms; atoms break up into their electron and proton elements; and every explosion, every coalescence scatters atomic energy. Professor Compton cannot duplicate solar heat, but with a mighty X-ray tube, he calculates, he can drive particles of matter at speeds so nearly solar that new atoms will result. His tool will be a 10,000-volt tube, five times the size of the tube whose description won the American Association for the Advancement...