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

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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

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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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FACULTY William Beard Dr. Carl D. Andaman ta: . WILLIAM BEARD, the only member of the Humanities Division who holds an engineering degree, believes that the application of technical knowledge demands a thorough study of sdcial conditions and an accurate prediction of future trends. His in- vestigations and teaching are accord- ingly in the important field connect- ing technology with economics and government, and he encourages scien- tists and engineers to plan their work to produce the greatest social value. MR. BEARDS hobbies are short-wave radios, fiying, and deep-sea diving. His great contribution to human com- fort, however, is ttWillie the Robot, who is the one banquet chairman who can be silenced at will. 20 DR. CARL ANDERSON, assistant pro- fessor of physics, obtained the first evidence of the actual existence of the positron. This entity, which is equal in mass to an electron but is of opposite charge, had been con- sidered a mathematical flction until one of DR. ANDERSONE many photo- graphic plates showed a thin streak curving in an unexpected direction. The streak was the photograph of a train of water drops in a cloud cham- ber which resulted from the ioniza- tion of gas by cosmic rays in a strong magnetic held. DR. ANDERSON, who was graduated from the Institute in 1927, by additional experiments has conflrmed the existence of the par- ticle - accepted now among the building stones of matter.