STUDY OF COSMIC RAYS
AMERICAN EXPERT ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA (rasas association teleoxaic.) AUCKLAND, September 1. Preceding two other scientists who are to assist him to conduct investigations into cosmic rays in Australia and India, Dr. Robert A. Millikan, famous American physicist, who is president of the California Institute of Technology and former Nobel Prize winner, arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa 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 up 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. Dr. Pickering is an Australian, who is instructor-at the institute. He 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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Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22805, 2 September 1939, Page 8
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