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Ordinary chemical reactions are totally inadequate to explain stellar energy. Even if the sun were composed entirely of coal (carbon) and the right amount of oxygen to burn it, the energy of that combustion could supply the sun's heat for a mere 2,500 years. Helmholtz' old theory that the energy comes from contraction of the sun's mass (in effect from the falling inward of all its matter) is also inadequate because it would explain only 30 million years of sunniness. Even radioactivity, the spontaneous disintegration of atoms such as uranium and radium, will...
...world finally will be rid of the linotype, in fact, of movable type. No more shall it be shackled by the Relativity Theory of Einstein, the Quantum Theory of Planck, the Wave Mechanics of Heisenberg. Out with Kekule's theory of molecular structure, Helmholtz's electrodynamics, the chemistry of aniline dyes, etc. Out with microscopes, telescopes, cameras, and other instruments requiring lenses, perfected in Germany, fundamentally of course for military usage. Out with Ehrlich's "Magic Bullet," Mendel's laws of heredity. Finally, but not until our program has been completed, out with the sterilization...
...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...
Even Heavyweight von Helmholtz was unable to explain what made the simplest wheels of a musical composition go round. But ever since his time rubber-gloved scientists have been trying to get music and musicians into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore...
Citing Henry as an example of a great scientific organizer, Crowther said, "In total achievement Henry was the equal of Faraday, Helmholtz, Kelvin, Maxwell, and the other great scientists of the nineteenth century." During his thirty-two years as the first secretary, and later head, of the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, Henry was responsible for its development...