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...That the English physicist, Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), and the German mathematician, Johann von Soldner, especially the latter, anticipated Einstein by 120 years in calculating the effect of gravitation on light rays and in deriving the formulas on which his work is based. Einstein never mentions von Soldner in his writings, and he even copies an error which von Soldner made in his formula, and which was exposed in recent years...
Query by a physicist: "Is a man of science obligated to make primer copy out of phenomena that are understood by only a very few of the world's keenest brains after a lifetime of study? There is small doubt where the majority of scientists would stand if this question were put to a vote...
...greatest living physicist"-now at the mercy of kind American hostesses...
...Joseph J. Thomson, headmaster of Trinity College, Cambridge, discoverer of the electron, and considered by many the greatest living physicist, is in the United States on an extended visit as the guest of Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. As guest of the Western Electric Company at luncheon in the Bell System laboratories, Sir Joseph saw in operation many applications of his fundamental theories and inventions. Among these was a water-cooled copper vacuum tube, devised by W. G. Housekeeper, with 40 times the capacity of the present glass-enclosed tube used in long-distance radio. This may shortly be installed...
...fixed stars", it is so far distant that with no telescope of any size however great can we even hope to see size or shape directly. A little more than a year ago, the diameter of Arcturus was measured at Mount Wilson by the interferometer method familiar to the physicist, and found to be 22,000,000 miles or about two and a half times the diameter of our own sun. Its distance is known to be about twelve light years. To the east of Arcturus and Bootes is Lyra, a small constellation marked by the bright star Vega, from...