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...Emmet Kennard Knott, a Seattle physicist and X-ray dealer, began to experiment with the effect of ultraviolet rays on the blood of dogs. In a local veterinary hospital he infected dogs with streptococci and staphylococci, withdrew a large amount of blood from their veins, irradiated it under an ultraviolet lamp, and put it back in circulation. Theoretically, the rays should have killed the germs. Instead, they killed the dogs...
...four years with the British Army in World War I, is a cousin of Lieut. General Sir John Greer Dill, Chief of Staff of the British Army. In a florid, passionate speech on "Science, Civilization and Faith," he lashed out at a group of 500 eminent scientists, headed by Physicist Arthur Holly Compton of Chicage, who had sent a "peace resolution" to President Roosevelt...
...confused with his famed father, Physicist Robert A. Millikan...
Died. Edwin Fitch Northrup, 75, onetime Princeton physicist, electrothermic engineer, holder of 104 patents for ways and means of producing and measuring high temperatures; in Princeton, N. J. In 1931 a furnace he invented produced a temperature of 3,600°, instantly vaporized rocks and pieces of iron dropped into...
...long been known that silver is a deadly killer of one-celled organisms, and silver has been widely used as a germicide. It used to be thought, how ever, that from 100,000 to 100,000,000 silver atoms were needed to kill a cell. Last week Physicist Alexander Goetz of Caltech described experiments showing that under favorable circumstances just one silver atom will kill a cell - a feat roughly comparable to the killing of a dinosaur by a gnat...