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...first board of regents consulted leading contemporary scientists-Faraday, Bache, Silliman -;who unanimously averred that Joseph Henry, natural historian and physicist at Princeton, was "without a peer in American science." Joseph Henry relinquished his private researches and gave 32 years, as the Institution's first secretary, to making its charter into a reality...
Americanization is a splendid thing. Out of young immigrants it produces Secretary J. J. Davis' Editor Boks, Physicist Pupins. But there was an old school of immigrants who resisted Americanization while they contributed with varying degrees of importance, richness and intimacy to the life of the country. Last week a reporter for the New York Evening Post found a member of that school and told his story...
These and many more events of 1926 were in the minds of scientific gentlemen who thronged, about 1,000 strong, in 15 sections and 43 allied societies, to Drexel Institute, Philadelphia. There their retiring president, Professor Michael Idvorsky Pupin, onetime Serbian shepherd, now oft-honored electro-physicist of Columbia University, greeted them with poetic discourse upon the progress of electrical communication, beginning with James Clerk Maxwell's monograph on magnetism in 1873 and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz's experiments with pulsations in the ether in 1889, through Marconi's practical application of Hertz's discoveries, to modern radio and radiotelephony. Himself...
Such a pioneer was Robert Grosseteste born in 1175 of humble parents, who was to become before the end of his long life bishop of Lincoln, the first mathematician and physicist of his age, and one of the earliest of English statesmen...
...what they had beheld. Dr. Lasker, a student of mental matters, assured them that Mr. Khaldah's feats ranged from those familiar in telepathy to others for which there were only two or three precedents. Another "seance" was arranged at the home of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, the physicist whose work helped Einstein to his classic theory...