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Appointed. Dr. Charles Greeley Abbot, 55, famed scientist; to be Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution at Washington...
There is an emotion of mixed awe and delight at his inventions that keeps the eyes of every scientist naive and young. Three amiable groups in three separate homes in Schenectady, N. Y. were so moved last week. A few blocks away in a research laboratory of the General Electric Co. a fourth group tingled sympathetically. In the laboratory was a television sending set; in the homes were television receiving sets. In the laboratory broadcasters moved, talked, sang, and in regimented waves their actions and sounds gambolled over the radio to the sight & hearing of the home audiences. Television, last...
Said Dr. Henry Pratt Fairchild, social scientist, quoting the conclusions of the World Population Conference at Geneva last summer: "Migration alone is not a remedy for population difficulties, or the solution of overpopulation of a nation, unless it is coupled with knowledge and practice of birth control...
...giving the sum to the School of Hygiene & Public Health of Johns Hopkins University, Mr. Garvan had insisted that the fund be called "The John J. Abel Fund for Research on the Common Cold." To that insistence he added: "In asking that the name of your great scientist be connected with this research I am mindful not only of his pre-eminent position and services in science, but more particularly of his outstanding reputation as the man who, perhaps more than any other living scientist today, exemplifies the beneficial application of the science of chemistry to medical problems, which...
...Interested primarily in the aesthetic side of life," Scientist Albert Abraham Michelson, of the University of Chicago, last week held an exhibition of his paintings in Chicago. With his own hands Dr. Michelson adjusted against the wall 18 watercolors, twelve portraits in pen and ink. Said he, "Of all the oil portraits I made, I have destroyed every canvas...