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After the other aspects of Du Chaillu's discoveries are forgotten and the spell of his personality has lifted, scientist may remember him as the first observer of the gorilla in modern times. In the eighteen fifties people were terrified but fascinated by what he told of the great apes. Unfortunately, some of the fabulous native stories of the gorillas were mis-construed as his own, among them tales of the beasts abduoting native women. This distrust has even lingered in the minds of present-day writers. It is interesting that, as a Harvard zoologist, who has specialized...
Because Dr. Albert Einstein is the world's most celebrated living scientist, laymen tend to turn his suggestions into new Einstein theories.* Last week despatches contained accounts of a new Einstein sun theory. While talking with Mt. Wilson Observatory astronomers about cyclones on the sun which sweep clockwise across the southern solar hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, Dr. Einstein suggested that a temperature difference between the sun's poles and equator might be the cause of the solar cyclones. Most probably, he said, the polar regions were warmer than the equatorial regions. Having given out an idea...
When a pure-hearted scientist meets a phenomenon which he cannot explain, he humbly admits his ignorance, asserts his hope that future Science may be able to explain all things. But many a scientist of high standing and great ability is quick to discredit what he cannot explain...
...able scientist not so well known as Dr. Einstein also said something about the sun last week. Dr. Walter Nernst, director of the Physical Institute of University of Berlin, 1920 Nobel prize winner in Chemistry, reaffirmed the "heat-death" theory of Sir James Hopwood Jeans (TIME, Jan. 5) by announcing that, from his studies in thermodynamics, he believes the sun is growing smaller, is steadily losing mass by radiation. Now only three billion years old, in ten billion years it will have shrivelled to a tiny speck. At that time the cold earth together with the other planets, will...
...chief chemist and chief of the division of mineral technology of the U. S. Bureau of Mines, general manager (1923-26) of Door Co. of New York (engineers); of brain tumor and double pneumonia; in Manhattan. A pioneer experimenter in radioactivity, Dr. Moore was the first U. S. scientist to discover means of producing native radium; the first to produce helium gas in large quantities, reduce its cost (from $1,500 to 10 per cubic foot), demonstrate its superiority over inflammable hydrogen gas. From 1918 to 1923 he was in charge of all helium work in the U. S. Bureau...