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With this judgment of Chicago's famed Physicist Arthur Holly Compton, U.S. scientists and military authorities agree. And this week not 100 but some 1,500 U.S. physicists-one out of every four-are absorbed with problems of defense. Furthermore, Director Henry Askew Barton of the American Institute of Physics estimated that research recruits are being inducted at the rate of 100 a month. Steadily the state of physical research in the U.S. is approaching that in Great Britain. There, reported Harvard's President James Bryant Conant, "All research in physics, except on war problems, has ceased" (TIME...
...Maryland Academy of Sciences, was put together five months ago by Academy Director Dr. J. Wallace Page in collaboration with a WBAL continuity writer named Vera Johnson. Feature of Quiz the Scientist is its formidable permanent board, which includes such lights as Dr. Robert Williams Wood, famed prankster physicist of Johns Hopkins University (TIME, June 20, 1938), Dr. Louise Kelley, Professor of Chemistry at Goucher College, Dr. Reginald Van Trump Truitt, Professor of Zoology at University of Maryland, and Dr. Page. Last week WBAL was hopeful that inquiries from NBC would result in a network spot for the quiz...
Thus, the medical examiner, the pathologist, the chemist, the physicist, the firearms expert, the fingerprint expert, and others too numerous to mention, participate in the investigation in order that murder shall not pass unrecognized and that all of the pertinent evidence shall be secured...
Meanwhile, in the U. S., Physicist Cecil Taverner Lane of Yale decided to build a Kapitza liquefier. He sent to Cambridge for blueprints. Unwilling to dismantle the machine for the sake of exact measurements, Cambridge sent only sketches, which showed valves in impossible places and other aberrations. Nevertheless Dr. Lane persevered, correcting the mistakes in the sketches by hunch and logic as he went along. It took him three years, cost $5,000. Last week he announced that he had successfully completed a Kapitza liquefier, was making liquid helium for low-temperature research quickly and safely, and at a cost...
...Germany last year appeared the first substantial biography of Rudolf Diesel, written by his son, Eugen. Last week in the U. S., Physicist Henry Crew of Northwestern University summarized it in the Scientific Monthly...