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Died. Sir Joseph John ("J. J.") Thomson, 83, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), Nobel Prizewinning (1906) physicist and author; in Cambridge, England. Small, easygoing Sir Joseph helped bridge the gap between the old & new physics by establishing the electron theory. Before his discoveries, atoms were considered indivisible; Thomson and colleagues figured out that each atom consists of a positively-charged nucleus surrounded by negatively-charged electrons...
Brilliant Physicist Ira Maximilian Freeman, who took his University of Chicago Ph.D. in 1928 when only 22, spends most of his time on abstruse equations of quantum theory. But Dr. Freeman is also a teacher (at Central College, Chicago), would like to explain science to the average citizen, dispel its "mysteries and marvels." In his latest book, Invitation to Experiment, published last week (Dutton; $2.50), he lures his readers into kitchen and bathroom, where they can dope out for themselves "the things that make the universe tick." With clever drawings and photographs, he simplifies molecular motion, gravitation, optics, everything...
Died. Sir Oliver Lodge, 89, famed physicist and spiritualist; of pneumonia; in Wiltshire, England. He intended to communicate with fellow members of the English Society for Psychical Research after his death, and, for verification, left under seal copies of the messages he planned to send...
University of Chicago has Nobel-prize-winning Physicist James Franck; Eduard Benes; Italy's famed Physicist Bruno Rossi and Novelist Giuseppe Borgese; distinguished Art Teacher Ulrich A. Middeldorf. At California Institute of Technology, German-born Dr. Spiro Kyropoulos is doing important research on oil; at University of California at Los Angeles is famed Composer Arnold Schönberg. At Columbia University is renowned Viennese Neurologist Otto Marburg. Alvin Johnson's own Institute has on its graduate faculty ("University in Exile") Fernando de los Rios, onetime Spanish Ambassador; Erwin Piscator, onetime director of Berlin's People...
Latest and most informing biography of the star that sustains all life of earth was published this week by Professor George Gamow ( The Birth and Death of the Sun - Viking - $3). A distinguished Russian-born physicist who is now at George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), author of a recent popularization of physics called Mr. Tompkins in Wonderland, Dr. Gamow writes clearly and imaginatively, knows when to stop short of over taxing lay readers. Some of his premises in The Birth and Death of the Sun are speculative and controversial, but they are based on the best recent investigations...