Science: Einstein in English

One and a half million words was the estimated output of some 3,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and associated groups who met last week in Pittsburgh. They read and discussed 1,200 papers on subjects ranging from the folklore of Schoharie County, N. Y., to sarcomatous changes in mammary adenomas. Many an industrial and academic research laboratory had exhibits. Harold Clayton Urey, newest U. S. Nobel Laureate, was there. When the apparatus for making heavy water broke down he fixed it. Nobelman Robert Andrews Millikan was 'there to...

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