California Institute of Technology Cal Tech - Big T Yearbook (Pasadena, CA)

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FACULTY oratory of Physical Chemistry at Dr. Wcmon and Dr. A. A. Noye: Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy. DR. NOYES is one of the honor students who has umade good . When he was kept out by lack of funds he completed the freshman work of M. I. T. at home and entered the sophomore class the next year with honor standing. IN THE picture PROFESSOR WATSON is talking seriously with DR. NOYES. PROFESSOR WATSON has used large quantities of liquid air to spread the fame of the Institute. His demonstra- tion lectures have caused many stu- dents to become interested in Tech. During the war, he was a research physicist with the navy, assisting with problems of submarine detec- tion. 18 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR CLARK B. MILLIKAN, who worked with DR. KLEIN on designing the wind tunnel, was this year elected as one of the Advisory Committee for the Institute of Aeronautical Sciences when he at- tended the annual meeting held in New York. IRVING P. KRICK deserted a career as a musician to become a meteorologist, and this year, while organizing a de- partment here, gained Widespread recognition for his work in forecast- ing by the method of airvmass analy- sis. Married and working while at- tending school, KRICK has gained his training by much effort. WHEN the Guggenheim Laboratory of Aeronautics was erected in 1928, PROFESSOR VON KARMAN came from Germany to direct the work here and at the Guggenheim Airship Institute at Akron, Ohio, which is also a part of Tech's facilities. He was With the Austro-Hungarian air forces during the World War. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR KLEIN, with a bachelor's degree in mechanical en- gineering and a doctor's degree in physics helped design the aeronautics laboratory and some of the fellows say that it is partly because of his ad- visory positions with the Douglas and Northrup aircraft companies that he can afford to drive a big; blue Pack- ard roadster.

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ever since, because as he says, there have always been important problems here to be solved. In addition to his teaching and the solution of such problems as the design of a trans- former set to deliver a current at a million volts for a long period of time, and the development of a sys- tem to protect oil tanks from light- ning, he has been consulting engineer for numerous organizations including the Metropolitan Water District. PROFESSOR SORENSON personally solicited the money to hire Techs first football coach, and he has long been chairman of the physical educa- tion committee. Recently he was in- strumental in bringing the student CWA t0 the campus, and he has di- rected the work of helping impecu- nious students. T HE history lectures of DOCTOR WILLIAM BENNETT MUNRO, espe- cially when the lecturer digresses from his announced subject, always hold his students' interest. PRO- FESSOR MUNRO likes to allow his hearers to form a hackneyed and unsound opinion and then to demol- ish it with all his witty learning and experience. His humor is some- times slightly satirical, and his store of anecdotes is immense. DR. MUNRO knows history thoroughly for he has written several authoritative texts and was head of the Harvard history school before coming to Tech. His experience has been broad. Besides being a major in the army during the war, DR. MUNRO has been chairman of the municipal affairs committee of the Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and the chairman of the board of a large bank. PROFESSOR ARTHUR A. NOYEs, direc- tor of the Gates Laboratory of Chem- istry, has gained another title of distinctioneiiThe King . It is a very private title, entirely unknown to the public and never used by the students. It was bestowed upon him out of re- spect by his fellow professors here and at M. I. T. In history book fash- ion DR. NOYES has also been given the title of father of Americas phys- ical chemistryn because of his sixteen years as director of the Research Lab- 17 FACULTY Dr. William B. Munro

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UNDER the direction of PROFESSOR JOHN P. BUWALDA the Division of Geology has grown in nine years to be the equal of that of any Ameri- can university. DR. BUWALDA first became interested in the earth's crust when as a boy he grew familiar with the Columbia lava fiow; and because he believed that a man's vocation should accord With his natural pref- erences, he was drawn into geology by his love of the sports and outdoor life, from which he still derives much pleasure. For many years DR. BU- WALDA has been concerned with the problems of the structural geology of California, particularly in their relation to earthquakes, and he has made many investigations by foot, motor, and plane of the states great fault blocks. As a member of the United States Geological Survey he has assisted in an accurate triangula- tion of California to obtain informa- tion about earth movements. As an expert for the National Park Service, he has helped to improve Yosemite. FACULTY DH. Clark Millikan, K ride, V072 K417725171, and Klein Dr. Buwalda