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...Physicist Compton. The freshwater College of Wooster, Ohio, gave Professor Compton his early training in science; his father, Professor Elias Compton (philosophy) at Wooster, gave him the spirit; and his older (by five years less four days) brother, Professor Karl Taylor Compton (physics) at Princeton was his pacemaker. Arthur Holly took his doctor of philosophy degree at Princeton while Karl Taylor was assistant professor of physics there...
Princeton University Albert Abraham Michelson, physicist , D.Sc. Harry Emerson Fosdick, preacher, D.D. Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U.S. L.L.D. General John Joseph Pershing LL.D...
...Beebe with air, the other connecting with a delicate telephone receiver. Thus, Mr. Beebe utilized the column of air which kept him alive, to transmit the sound waves of his voice to an amanuensis at the sea's surface. The device was contrived by Dr. Mark Barr, English physicist, who accompanied the expedition...
...Robert Andrew Millikan, famed physicist, first isolated the electron, detected the cosmic pulse that throbs in the solar systems of broad-girthed planets and infinitesimal atoms alike. Like Master Electrician Steinmetz, this man of twinkling blue-grey eyes and sparkling wit knows how to make scientific complexities charming as well as awesome. For weeks past in the North, South, East and West he has lectured to make laymen see the unity of movement and purpose in the cosmos enveloping the universe...
...seven years, burying his instruments at sea, flying them high into the sky with kites, lowering them into the snow-fed waters of mountain lakes, Physicist Millikan tracked things uncanny, elusive and unknown. In 1925 he announced his discovery: cosmic rays (Millikan rays) so powerful they could pass through three feet of steel, six feet of solid lead. These rays, bombarding the earth from all directions, come from the disintegrating atoms of embryonic stars (TIME...