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Members of the great German learned society Kaiser Wilhelm Gesallschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften went to the Berlin suburb of Dahlem, walked down Faradayweg to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Silicate Research. There they heard Professor-Doktor Wilhelm Eitel, physical-chemist, director of the silicate research, speak of "one of the most sensational discoveries of the decade." They surveyed the discovery, a small metal disc which would do what scientists have been predicting and working towards for years ?make electricity out of sunlight...
...Columbia. For the first time, a well organized exhibition of research projects was included in the meeting so that scientists could see what they heard. Many were disappointed because their retiring president, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan, chairman of California Institute of Technology, did not bring his friend Herr Doktor Albert Einstein, now in California, to tell them about Relativity. Incoming president for 1930-31 is Dr. Thomas Hunt Morgan, director of biological laboratories at Caltech...
...committee of awards in Stockholm announced two new Nobel men. For their 1930 chemistry choice, they turned to Munich, as they have al ready done five times. This year they chose Herr Doktor Hans Fischer, 49, professor of organic chemistry at the Munich Institute of Technology. Outstanding physicist for the year they found in India, dignified Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, 42, professor at the University of Calcutta...
...Chandrasekhara, unlike Herr Doktor Fischer, is used to fame, has been about more. After his graduation from Presidency College, Madras, he served as an enrolled officer in the Indian finance department. In 1917 he went to the University of Calcutta to teach physics, research on light and sound. The British association chose him as lecturer in 1924, sent him to Toronto. Later that year he was invited to become research associate in physics at California Institute of Technology. At his home in Calcutta where he lives with his wife Lokasundarammal, he works hard, is busy being editor of The Indian...
Lena's Choice. The German thus smackingly snubbed is Herr Professor Doktor Otto Stutzer. Early this year he was peacefully lecturing upon metallurgy to beer-drowsy students at the University of Freiburg. He read in the papers of disputes, ever more violent, between Lena Ltd. and the Soviet Government over operating details of the concession. Gradually the rupture grew so wide as to demand arbitration. Thereupon, under Article 90 of the Lena Goldfields Concession Agreement of 1925, the Soviet Government chose a panel of six German professors, and Lena made ready to pick one of these as chairman...