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...Williams Brothers' careers have been strikingly like those of the Brothers Cornpton- Karl Taylor, 43, and Arthur Holly, 38. The Comptons are the sons of the theologian president-emeritus of the College of Wooster. While Karl was teaching physics and studying electro-magnetic radiations at Princeton, Arthur studied the same subject there. Upon his elder brother's advice Arthur followed a path of physics which led him to a University of Chicago professorship and a Nobel Prize. Karl became president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bios | 4/27/1931 | See Source »

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