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Death Of American Physicist

fZVJZ. Press AssociatiQTL^jCopyright)i: • Rec. 10 pm. ■ PASADENA (California), April 26. Dr. Arthur S. King, aged 81, a ■ physicist who pioneered research ■ in spectroscopy—the analysis of > Light rays from the stars—died at • his home in Pasadena yesterday. ‘ He was head of the physics ■ laboratory of the Mount Wilson • Observatory from 1908 to 1943 and • supervised construction of a high- , temperature furnace used in the • interpretation of solar spectra in! : relation to temperature. ' He also worked on meteorites. 1 . the classification of spectrum lines > and the spectra of rare earths. . - He was the discoverer of carbon i 13, one of the important isotopes, - of that element. ' Plane Crash in France. —A | French military aircraft crashed 5 and burst into flames today atj " Yillaroche airfield, near Paris,! c killing five men. Military sources 1 said that the "aircraft, which was ' specially equipped for landing on short runways, crashed on landing after a test flight.—Paris, April 26.

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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 11

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Death Of American Physicist Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 11

Death Of American Physicist Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28264, 30 April 1957, Page 11

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