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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1934-02-15, Page 7Two Medals To Be Awarded For Work in Mathematics Toronto:—Every four years there is Old a gathering of mathematicians, known as the International Congress of Mathematicians. At the next meet - fug and each one thereafter twc gold medals will be awarded to the mathe- enaticians selected for their outstand- ing contributions to mathematics by an international committee appointed 'tor the purpose. The next meeting i•will be held in Oslo in 1536, The late Dr. J. O. Fields, Research Professor of Mathematics at the Uni- versity of Toronto, was responsible for assembling the Mathematical Cons gress in Toronto in. 1924—the only meeting which has been held on this continent—and was president of the congress and the editor of its proceed- ings, which constituted two large vol- umes, published by the University of Toronto Press. With funds remaining after th.e completion of the work Dr. Fields suggested the foundation of these medals, The task of designing a suitable medal was entrusted to a prominent Canadian sculptor, Dr. R. Tait McKen- zie, who has now completed his work. Dr, McKenzie got his impressions' from reading the life and works of Archimedes. The medal is two and a half inches in diameter, The obverse shows the head of Archimedes facing right. Dr. McKenziedepicts the sage as a man of mature age, vigorous, with curly hair and beard, straight Greek nose and prominent brow. In the field is the word "Archimedous" (portrait) or Archimedes in Greek Capitals, and tile artist's mongram, "RTM," and "MCMXXXIII," The inscription from the Roman poet Manilius surrounding it is: "Tran - sire suum pectus ,.mundoque potidi," which may be freely translated: "To transcend one's human limitations and master the universe.' The reverse has a label bearing the inscription: "Con- gregati ex toto orbs tribuere," which may be freely translated: "Mathema- ticians gathered together from the whole world honor noteworthy contri- butions to knowledge." Latest Fi dings In Scie ce World IIOW MUCH LIGHT? Measuring light is not especially new. It is usually done by a photo- meter, which even in its portable foam, is more of a laboratory than a )workaday instrument. Now there is available a light measurer which any one can use and which can be read as easily as a clock or thermometer. "Hall Stairs," "Very Coarse Work," "Average Work and Reading," "Fine Work, Print and Sewing," "Fine Vis- ual Work over Long Periods" are the legends above a scale over which a finger plays. Beneath the scale are figures—foot candles. A glance at the dial said it is easy to see that for "Very Coarse Work" only ten candles to the square foot are necessary, but that "Sewing" demands between 20 ' and 30. We have here the outcome of a dis- covery which was simultaneously made in Germany by Dr. Lange and In this country by the Westinghouse research engineers. The sensitive core of the instrument is merely a copper disk which has been coated With copper oxide. Expose copper ox - Me to light and r, feeble electric cur- rent is generated. The current swings the indicating finger over the dial bearing the very practical legends. In other words, light is converted into electricity. The more light the more electricity. With that simple fact to guide them the engineers of Pitts- burgh found no difficulty in making the swinging finger state how many FREE TRIAL OFFER a» AGRUBCHEN If you have never' tried Krusehen—ery it now at our expense. We have distributed ea great many special GIANT" packages which. make it easy for you to prove our claims for yourself. Ask your druggist for the new "` GIANT" 75c. 'package. 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"It remains foe us to state that we have found nose -closing to occur not only with a dull electric fire but also with a bright electric fire and, rni.ir- abiJle dicta, with the clinical gas lamp, which is especially commended by, Sir Leonard Hill," concludes the report. UNDER -SEA EYE -GLASSES. Dr. Robert E. Cornish of the In- stitute of Expermental B•ology of the University of California, finds no dif- ficulty in reading newsprint under rater, thanks to glasses of his awn oesign. Gaggles for divers are no- thing new; their glasses are simply small window panes without any re- fracting properties. Cornibh's, on the other hand, are true lenses that bend the light rays just as he wants them to bend to improve seeing. In The Journal of Scientific Instru- ments Dr. Cornish tells how he came to resort to lenses. Most of, our focus- ing for goad seeing is done with the cornea, or outer transparent coating of the eyeball and very little with the so-called "crystalline lens." Light usually passes through air. When it strikes the watery liquid with which the eye is filled it is bent or focused But in water there is no propel bending or focusing. Water without water within, is the reason. There must be a difference between the two bending or refracting media. This explains why to swimmers who keep their eyes open under water every- thing is a blur. It also explains why ordinary goggles or window glass im- prove vision. Between the glass and the cornea is ai:. So long es 'we have air and water, seeing is fairly good But, reason_d Dr. Cornish, why not treat the eye under water, as if 'ts vision were defective and prescribe lenses for it just as an oculist would? He did so with the result noted.'"Bach lenses should have value in saving life where it is necessary to dive for a victim of dgawtning," says he. "Life- guards now have largely to grope for the victim." foot-candles are available in a given room. HEAT RAYS AND NOSES. Professor Sir Leonard Hill of Lon- don hes been telling the world that there are "nose -opening" and "nose - dozing" rays, both infra -red, The sun, bright lamps, coal fires and gas flames are "nese openers," while all dark sources of heat are "nose shut- ters. Hill even found a nose -closing effect at a distance of forty feet in a 300 -watt gas-filled incandescent lamp with a screen of cellophane interposed. He covered a hole in a piece of card- board ardboard with two square inches of the horny layer of the skin and found that it shut the side of the nose to which it was exposed even when held in front of the face at a distance of twenty-seven feet from this particular lamp. These conclusions were so startling that the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and the Medical Research Council of England decided' to repeat Hill's experiments. Hill proved to be :wrong. "Nature has fortunately provided us with two nostrils," says the author of the slightly . scornful report, "and it is possible to breathe through the one and at the sane time to utilize the other for measuring inspiratory and expiratory pressures." So the somewhat skeptical experimenters connected the second nostril by a rub- ber tube with a sensitive pressure - measuring instrument which made a record on a moving chart. In a dark roam blindfolded subjects sat close to a dull electric fire or an electrically heated panel that did not glow at all. They closed one nostril with the connection. leading to the in- strument and breathed through the other. In another room records were taken without their knowledge. Now and then an electric lamp, screened by glass, was s m itched on and off from outside the room to illuminate faces. No evidence was found that the lamp acted as a "nose opener." This was true even when some subjects were tested who had difficulty in breathing because of abnorinal air passages. Professor Hill objected. Blindfold- ing was wrong, he argued. It mi'ht have inhibited the subjects. The testing ei'nnnittee started a new series of experiments. Blind persons were now selected, because they were obviously uninhibited by light. More- over, they were tested in an air-con- ditioned room so that the temperature and humidity could be controlled. Seated in a comfortable armchair and screened from drafts and most of the room's light, each blind subject faced one of a pair of electric fires at a dis- tance of 6 feet 3 inches. The testers were diabolical enough to run the fires silently on a trolley behind screens of tin and wood contrived so that the subject could be irradiated by each fire in ' m.rn. Ona fire was very 'bright and the other very dull. Thirty blind hien thus ' exposed— Too Much "Party' Last Night Too Much Food, Late {;lours. 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