NEW ZEALAND STUDENT.
AN AMERICAN FELLOWSHIP. , A New Zealand student, Mr. William H. Pickering, now at the California Inetituto of Technology, Pasadena, has received an unusual distinction in being chosen as one of eight youths now at American colleges and technical schools to receive fellowships from the Charles A. Coflin Foundation. Mr. Pickering is president of the senior class at the California Institute, and is to receive his Bachelor of Science degree next month. He expects to stay on at this technological and research institution doing graduate etudy in the scattering effects of cosmic rays. In this research he will work under Professor 'Robert A. Millikan, the distinguished American physicist and discoverer of the cosmic rays. Mr. Pickering was born at Wellington in 1910. and his home is in Christchurch. He graduated in 1928 from Canterbury College. The Charles A. Coflin Foundation, of which he becomes a fellow was established in memory of tho first president of the General Electric Company, and its purpose is to give recognition to various developments in plectricity and physice.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 123, 26 May 1932, Page 14
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