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Last week The Intelligent Individual and Society and Retreat from Reason continued the counterattack. The more tentative of the two authors, tousled, 55-year-old Percy Williams Bridgman, famed Harvard physicist, admits that people are harder to understand than physics. In time, however, he thinks that man's complex make-up can be plotted and simplified, provided men take over the physicist's skeptical (but not cynical) attitude toward things-in-general. His major discovery, after 300 pages of considering man's odd behavior, is that people are mentally lazy...
Jauncey's Electrons. One storm centre is an able, bald, self-critical physicist named George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey, who adorns the faculty of Washington University at St. Louis. Recently at a convention of scientists in Indianapolis, Dr. Jauncey described experiments which convinced him that the rest-masses of beta rays (fast electrons) shooting out of Radium E were variable (TIME, Jan. 17). He passed his electrons through a velocity selector, then estimated their masses by their behavior in electrical and magnetic fields. Since then Dr. Jauncey has bombarded the Physical Review with numerous communications backing up his announcement...
Some of Margery's adherents forswore their allegiance after that, but others remained faithful. Psychologist Henry Clay McComas of Johns Hopkins University, whose hobby is exposing mediums, gathered two distinguished colleagues, a physicist and another psychologist, and journeyed to Boston to make a scientific report on a Margery seance. They were allowed to feel "ectoplasmic rods" supposedly sprouting from her thighs, but came to the conclusion afterwards that the rods were animal intestines stuffed with cotton and stiffened with wire...
...devout man, like his colleagues Robert Andrews Millikan, Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and Albert Einstein, is Nobel Laureate Arthur Holly Compton. Irreverent University of Chicago students nickname the beetle-browed physicist "Holy." Even more than most scientists he participates in the institutional activities of religion; as deacon of Hyde Park Baptist...
Church in Chicago, as chairman of the University's Board of Social Science and Religion, as a Y. M. C. A. worker. This, not merely because he was brought up in a churchly home - his father was a minister, his mother a missionary worker -but because Physicist Compton thought through, over a number of years, to a belief in God and in man's free will in "glimpsing God's purpose in nature and sharing that purpose." Last week Dr. Compton embarked upon further, and wider, institutional activities. He accepted the Protestant chairmanship of the National Conference...