COSMIC RAY RESEARCH
TJ.S. PHYSICIST ARRIVES TESTS IN DOMINION * (Per Press AUCKLAND, this .day. Preceding two other scientists, who are to assist him to conduct investigations into cosmic rays in Australia and India, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, the famous American physicist, who is president of the California Institute of Technology and a former Nobel Prize winner, has arrived at Auckland on a short visit to New Zealand. Included among the equipment he brought with him were 200 balloons, which will be inflated with hydrogen and, carrying self-recording instruments, will be sent ud to the limits of the earth’s atmosphere.
Dr. Millikan will be joined in Sydney by two other members of the institute’s staff. Dr. H. V. Neher and Dr. W. H. Pickering. The latter is an Australian who is instructor at the institute. lie was described by Dr. Millikan as " being a very able scientist. Although he did not discover them, Dr. Millikan gave cosmic rays their present name.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20032, 2 September 1939, Page 16
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