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...Messenger (Cornell 1881) "to provide a course of lectures on the evolution of civilization, for the special purpose of raising the moral standards of our political, business and social life." The first series was delivered in 1925 by Chicago's Archeologist James Henry Breasted. Subsequent lectures have included physicists, psychologists and geneticists. In calling another physicist to deliver the Messenger messages, instead of a great economist as "our political, business and social life" of .today might have suggested, Cornell's officials had profound considerations. Not the least profound was their chance to get Sir Arthur Eddington, whose position...
...design. Heated to 1,000° C., the mold was topped by a beehive-shaped, three-doored covering. At 8 a. m. outside the plant a crowd of 4,000 had gathered. At 8:30 on the pouring floor quiet, pious Dr. George Vest McCauley, the company's physicist in charge of operations, and genial Dr. John C. Hostetter, director of research, saw that everything was ready. In the deafening roar of gas blowers in the furnace and ventilating blowers cooling the factory Dr. McCauley could not make himself heard. He signaled his orders with his arm. A workman...
...convictions, last week had plenty of outside support. With 18 schools closed, San Francisco had 18,200 pupils on halftime. Oakland was looking over its buildings. Los Angeles had found 275 buildings unsafe, pitched many a tent. A Permanent Committee on Earthquake Protection was at work under famed Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan. And University of California's Seismology Professor Perry Byerly declared: "It would be advisable if every city in California were as much concerned as Berkeley...
...stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim's airdrome outside Moscow one morning last week. By noon the ground station was proudly issuing copies of radio messages from...
When scientists begin writing like preachers and preachers begin talking like scientists, the great battle of God and Nature is all but over. Famed for his piety is Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, son of a Presbyterian minister. Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington is a devout, creedless Quaker. Physicist Arthur Holly Compton has been advancing towards God more slowly although his father, too, is a Presbyterian minister. Now writing a book about his beliefs, the University of Chicago professor expounded some of them last week in an interview with Philip Kinsley of the Chicago Tribune. Said Scientist Compton...