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...finance it for the next three years. Its president is Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology; its vice president, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University; its board chairman, Banker Norman H. Davis. Executive committee and active members include many a famed educator, publicist, business man, scientist. Director is Levering Tyson who has' retired as head of Columbia University's Department of Home Study to take...
...size of the tube whose description won the American Association for the Advancement of Science's $1,000 prize. If Professor Compton does eventually create or break up atoms, next great problem will be: How to use the energy thus released? All this exposition showed the pragmatic scientist in Professor Compton. He also took pains to show himself a Presbyterian idealist by declaring his creed: "I believe that the very existence of the amazing world of the atom points to a purposeful creation, to the idea that there is a God and an intelligent purpose back of everything...
...Tower, was somewhat restless. "[We do] not describe Nature, but merely expectations from Nature," he said. "Whereas the aim of Science is to describe the things themselves, not merely the probability of their happening. . . ." He is confident that there is a cause for every phenomenon; that some day some scientist will be able to explain precisely why Mary started for the theatre, why she turned at the observer's tap, why she did or did not proceed to a particular performance...
...building up of a personnel of those men whose activities in research and teaching place them among the leaders of their field. It is not an overstatement to say that the real value of Professor Shapley's achievements in astronomy marks him as that very desirable type of young scientist. However, by no means all the departments of science in the University are graced with men of his caliber, and the dull routine of uninspired teaching and petty research to be found there will produce neither first rate scientists nor significant achievements...
...that he lumps them thus: Patron's Medal, 1928, by Royal Geographical Society, for work in Polar regions, culminating in (1928) flight from Point Barrow to Spitsbergen; awarded gold medals by American, Belgian, Danish, Cuban Geographical Societies (the Cuban society last week gave a medal to Georges Claude, French scientist who experimentally generates electricity from the heat differences between the surface and bottom waters of Matanzas Bay); silver medals by German Geographical Society and City of Berlin; gold medal by Norwegian and French Aeronautical Societies and Inter- national League of Aviators...