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...Arthur Holly Compton, University of Chicago physicist and 1927 Nobel Prizewinner, accepted the chancellorship of Washington University at St. Louis, thus becoming the third Compton brother to be a college president. Brother Karl is president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brother Wilson is president of Washington State College (TIME...
...anecdote-crammed memoirs (Men and Memories, Since Fifty) about such famed friends as Pablo Picasso ("the gigolo of geometry") and H. G. Wells ("a great literary cartoonist"). Sample Rothenstein sidelight on a celebrity: Albert Einstein once explained to him why an associate kept shaking his head as the great physicist talked: "He is my mathematician," said Einstein, "who examines problems which I put before him and checks their validity. You see, I am not myself a very good mathematician...
...question has been debated ever since Newton. But physicists are still in the dark about whether light is 1) a wave, 2) a particle or 3) a combination of both. Sometimes it behaves like one, sometimes like the other. Last fortnight a physicist advanced a brand-new theory: that light is some kind of electrodynamic force which travels not in waves or straight lines but like a corkscrew...
Author of this idea was unorthodox Physicist Felix Ehrenhaft, whom most of his colleagues consider a champion leaper-to-a-conclusion. Last year Dr. Ehrenhaft started a sharp argument among physicists by announcing that magnetism has currents which flow like electricity (TIME, May 22). At a Manhattan meeting of the American Physical Society last week, he told how he had projected a very fine light beam vertically in a glass tube, then dropped into the beam microscopic particles of matter (e.g., chromium). When the particles were smaller than the light's wave length, they fell straight down. But bigger...
...technique for molecular photography was originated by famed British Physicist Sir William Lawrence Bragg (TIME, Oct. 3, 1938), pioneer in the X-ray study of molecular crystals. He found that X rays, when diffracted by crystals, provide clues for calculating the pattern of atoms in a molecule. Using this information, he developed certain films, made of light and dark bands, which, when superimposed on the X-ray picture, make the atomic pattern visible. By enlargement of such a photograph, a molecule can be magnified 250,000,000 times...