โ Scribed by Ellice McDonald
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
This is a very difficult time at which to give a report of our laboratories. It is the first since Pearl Harbor and war to our country has brought many difficulties to research such as ours which is now almost entirely upon war defense research.
The whole program of our research has been recast and rerouted since the beginning of the war in I939. Many humanitarian projects have been shelved for duration and many new problems have been attacked. In our choice of these war problems we have been guided by two principlesfirst, that they should be of valueto the war effort and, second, that they should be of such humanitarian value that they could be continued and developed, if need be, after the end of the war.
Research altered again by war has altered very much within my lifetime. This is not surprising because life has altered. In one generation, all standards are astray: there * November 18, I942.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The subject of this lecture was " The Atomic Nature of Matter " and the following is a brief synopsis: The atomic structure of matter generally; ancient speculation. " Is matter infinitely divisible? " Views of Newton and the early chemists. Dalton's atomic theory. Size and number of atoms illustra
by greatly increasing the frequency induces parallel leakages with subsequent error in measurement. Therefore in the design of a conductivity cell of small volume concessions must be made on one or more of these points.