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...orthodox psychologists maintain . a unique position as being the exponents of a shaky, very materialistic psychology, based on the already discarded concepts of the physicist and the biologist. Their position is now almost untenable, due to the confirmation of Rhine's findings at Columbia, the University of Colorado, N. Y. U., Harvard, Bonn University, Groningen, and Fordham...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 2, 1938 | 5/2/1938 | See Source »

...mustachioed German physicist, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, published an enormous volume on the physics and psychology of musical sound. Its enormous title: Lehre von den Tonempfindungen als Physiologische Grundlage für die Theorie der Musik. Terser English translators called it Sensations of Tone. Composers and prima donnas paid little attention to Physicist von Helmholtz' monumental brainwork, but the science of acoustics was groggy from it for half a century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scientists | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

...into test tubes and under microscopes. Today's No. 1 and 2 musical microbe hunters are flute-playing, Einstein-disputing Professor Dayton C. Miller of Cleveland's Case School of Applied Science, and Iowa State University's dapper, white-haired Dean Emeritus Carl Emil Seashore. While Physicist Miller has succeeded in taking up where the doughty von Helmholtz left off, Psychologist Seashore has spent a lifetime on the beach of music's ocean brooding over, and trying to remedy, the mathematical inaccuracies of long-haired musicians. From spry, 72-year-old Seashore's laboratory have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scientists | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Last week a new flood of scientific ideas and gadgets descended upon the musical world. Gadget No. 1 was the chromatic stroboscope. Conceived by Indiana University's Professor Ora L. Railsback and developed by Physicist Robert William Young and Engineers Allen Loomis and O. Hugo Schuck. it was demonstrated at the Music Educators' National Conference in St. Louis. The Young, Loomis & Schuck stroboscope, which sits on a table, blinks and flickers when anybody sings out of tune in its presence, makes caterwauling detectible even to the deaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Scientists | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Collaborators. Co-author Infeld is a distinguished theoretical physicist in his own right. A tall, jovial man with irregular teeth and the lumpy physique of a sedentary scholar, he speaks English with a heavy accent, but fluently and well. Born 40 years ago in Cracow, Poland, he studied at Cracow's ancient university and in Berlin, lectured in Lwów, spent some years in England's Cambridge as a Rockefeller fellow, joined the Institute at Princeton in 1936. In Cambridge he helped Physicist Max Born, another German exile (now at Edinburgh), in the formulation of a field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Exile in Princeton | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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