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...plain man-in-the-pew nor even for the average preacher-in-the-pulpit are Bishop Barnes' thoroughgoing expositions of matter, space, spacetime, relativity, electricity, heat & light, the quantum theory and Rontgen rays, the solar system, galactic universe and nebulae, evolution and man's origin. As Dr. Barnes points out: "The intellectual gulf between the leaders of science and the educated citizen is dangerously wide." Yet in his lectures there are numerous stout little bridges...
...material is neatly organized and consists of a logical, though not chronological, account of physics, beginning with the kinetic theory of gases and ending with spectroscopy and a discussion of the periodic table of the elements. Three weeks are spent in introducing the basic idea of the quantum theory, as it is evidenced in the photo-electric effect and the spectrum of hydrogen. Each experiment is described and demonstrated prior to the discussion of the theory which explains it. Agreement between theoretical and experimental results is carefully tabulated throughout. The mathematics is limited to algebra; integral signs are banned...
Kudos-The $1,000 prize for the best paper presented at the meeting went to Dr. Henry Eyring, 32, research associate at Princeton, for smart use of Nobel Laureate Max Planck's Quantum Mechanics to explain how the elements hold together in chemical combinations. By mathematics he has shown how to make light hydrogen atoms spin clockwise or counterclockwise at will, how to introduce bromine into organic compounds most easily. By mathematics he has proved that pure fluorine is the least active of the halogen group of elements (fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine), a fact which controverts accepted chemistry...
...Professor Linus Carl Pauling of California Institute of Technology, chosen last year as U. S. Chemistry's brightest. Dr. Rice, who also studied at Caltech, is prodigious in his application of physical theories to chemical problems. His special work has been interpreting reactions between gases by means of quantum mechanics. He has also used modern theories of statistics to describe metals and electro-capillarity. The past year his researches have been devoted to finding out what happens to the energy contained in molecules of gases when the molecules break up. His present program is to determine the process...
Goethe as a scientist was crisply eulogized in Weimar by Physicist Max Planck, author of the famed Quantum Theory. Clap, clap went the hands not only of all the foreign diplomats but also of all the rectors of all the German universities, of all the premiers of all the German states except Prussia, of Professors Schreiber of Yale, Woodbridge of Columbia and the Rector of the Academy of Paris at the Sorbonne, Professor Sebastien Charlety...