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...investigator is Physicist Eugene Rabinowitch, working for the $615,000 Solar Energy Research Fund established by Godfrey Lowell Cabot to find methods of harnessing the 200 trillion horsepower which the sun pours on the earth. Rabinowitch's researches led him to explore the most imaginative and difficult solution of the mundane power problem: the artificial imitation of the chemical process which goes on inside green plants. Rabinowitch began by looking for organic dyes which, like chlorophyll in plants, might build up compounds with the help of light's energy, which can be released and utilized when the compounds...
Died. Sir William Henry Bragg, 79, famed British physicist; in London. With Son William Lawrence Bragg he developed the X-ray spectrometer, which revealed the interior architecture of crystals. For this work father & son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize. A famed, sound popularizer of science, Sir William once flatly told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that man has a soul, declared : "Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together...
...transformation of the University's science departments into service schools calls for a corresponding acceleration in those departments, like mathematics, which are feeders for the sciences. No engineer, physicist, or chemist can proceed far without a basic mathematical training, for more than one bridge has fallen or radio gone dead because of weaknesses in its designer's calculus...
...lowered part way into a bath of the same liquid, the levels within and without come gradually ... to the identical height, as if there were a perforation in the cup or a siphon over its rim-but there is no siphon and there is no perforation," writes Physicist Karl Kelchner Darrow of the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Reviews of Modern Physics. "The cup need not even be partly full to start with-it can be empty initially, and the liquid will climb invisibly over its rim from the bath...
This behavior fits none of the most hallowed formulas, whose Greek and Roman letters now lie tumbled about like a child's alphabet blocks. Faced with the need for elaborate rebuilding of formulas, Physicist Darrow exults: "To have come on a fluid like this is like finding unexplored land in the midst of an ancient community, or a tract of primeval prairie among the cornfields of the Middle West...