Word: mathematicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics!" So exclaimed Sir James Hopwood Jeans, eminent British mathematician, for the benefit of struggling scholars. But he did not mean the remark literally. It was a sentence he had thought up to help them remember pi (the quotient of diameter into circumference) carried out to the 14th decimal (3.14159265358979) by the number of letters in each word...
...yellow-jacketed book, In the Reign of Rothstein, appeared. Rothstein-Mathematician of Crime was published serially in a New York daily. Throughout the autumnal mayoralty campaign, candidates aspiring to Mayor Walker's desk filled the newspapers with accusations that Tammany Hall was afraid to prosecute the Rothstein case because Tammany men were too intimately connected with Rothstein's world...
...Edouard a leg up into the Chamber of Deputies in 1919, and fora time Edouard toadied to Edouard in return. When Mayor Herriot became Prime Minister in 1924 he popped Henchman Daladier into the Ministry of Colonies, later got him the portfolio of War in the Cabinet of statesman-mathematician Paul Painleve...
...Called Honorable because he was the second son of Viscount Amberly, Philosopher Russell is famed as mathematician, radical, pacifist. One of "twelve men" who understood Einstein's Relativity Theory, he wrote The A B C of Relativity (1925). Last week he said he did not understand the "last five pages" of the Einstein "Coherent Field Theory," latest Einstein hypothesis, printed on six pages (TIME...
...Observatory at Oslo, comes to Harvard to lecture throughout this year and to work in the Harvard Observatory. He will give a course in cosmic physics, and will lecture before the course in Descriptive Astronomy. Although only 33 years of age, he is renowned as an accomplished mathematician and an outstanding astrophysicist...