COSMIC RAY STUDIES

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 13

COSMIC RAY STUDIES

NEW ZEALANDER'S SUCCESS

Success overseas in the field of science has been achieved by Mr. William H. Pickering, a young New Zealander, who , with his, American wife, returned to the Dominion from the United States on furlough by the Makura yesterday.

Mr. Pickering is an old boy of Wellington College, where he was a prefect. After studying in New Zealand he went to California where he won an unusual distinction in being chosen as one of four youths to receive fellowships from the Charles "A. Coffin Foundation.

At the technological and research institution at Pasadena he has studied the scattering effects of cosmic rays. In this research he has worked under Professor Robert A. Milikan, the distinguished American physicist and discoverer of the cosmic rays. Dr. Milikan is a Nobel Prize winner in physics, and has been president of the National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.A.

Mr. Pickering was born at Wellington in 1910, and his home is in Christchurch. He graduated in 1928 from Canterbury College. The Charles A. Coffin Foundation, of which he is a fellow, was established in memory of the first president of the General Electric Company, and its purpose is to give recognition to various developments in electricity and physics.