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Professor Shapley is noted for his research work. In addition to having perfected methods of measuring star distance photometrically, he is responsible for the expansion and contraction theory of the mass of the variable stars, which explains their changes in luminosity. He came to the College Observatory in 1921 from Mount Wilson, where he had worked since...
...facilities for scientific research in Europe as a whole and in England in particular are greatly exaggerated" said Professor James W. McBain yesterday in an interview for the CRIMSON. "Americans seen to feel that a scientific education is not complete until a certain period has been spent in study in a foreign country. Why anyone should choose to leave the greatest laboratories in the world is difficult to understand...
Cocks or hens to order may be the daily program of the poultry yard a few years hence, if experiments by Dr. F. A. E. Crew, director of the biological research laboratory at the University of Edinburgh, reported at the Liverpool meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (TIME, Sept. 24) fulfill his expectations. Dr. Crew took a pure-bred buff Orpington hen which had already laid eggs, and by an artificial glandular process little understood, changed its sex. At least, the comb, wattles and spurs grew, the bird crowed instead of cackled, paid attention to other...
...other departmental buildings. On the top floor of Widener Library are the Sanscrit Library in Room A, the Classical Library in Room E, that of the Graduate School of Business Administration in Rooms F. G. H. and I, the Graduate Historical Library in Room K, The Bureau of Municipal Research Room O, The German Library Room Q, the Mathematics Library in Room T, the Economics Library in Room U, The French Library in Room W, the Lowell Memorial Library (Romance Languages) Room X and the Child Memorial Library of English in Room Z. The Winsor Memorial Rooms containing...
...Research Fellows in Physics for one year from September 1, 1923.--S. K. Allison, Ph.D.; G. L. Clark, Ph.D.; G. R. Harrison, Ph.D.; R. S. Mulliken, Ph.D...