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of projects, including accoustic devices, infrared light as applied to the detection of poison gases, and in the training of spectroscopists for scientific research. There are many whom we have not included in this survey. Their contribution was perhaps the greatest and the most difficult to make. To those professors and students who gave no ma- terial aid to the war effort but carried on uncomr The in; stitution of the yeararound schedule placed a great plainingly we owe humble gratitude. burden on students and faculty alike. Our pro; fessors have admirably accomplished the task, and have set a sterling example for the students. The increased teaching schedule did not stop the faculty from working on books they were writing or the articles they were contributing to news; papers and magazines. Nor did they neglect the individual student as they might easily have done. Theirs was the job of building citizens as well as soldiers. Theirs was the job of sending men out into a waratorn world with not only a textbook knowledge but also an acute awareness of their responsibilities. They gave to the men at the Hopkins intangible ideals, a sense of intrinsic values, and a love and devotion for all that is good and honorable. Throughout the war they remained in the background, doing their jobs without praise; but theirs is one of the most vital contributions made to the welfare of our country. johns Hopkins Laboratory of Applied Physics-Silvcr Spring, Maryland .......,..,. ,.-., a a ,c.-,,i . veq ,1 ,, V .4 t..c-....;. :;-.........,.-... 24 ' V'If-WT'T'T
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put into operation on a fullatime basis, and for many months was the sole producer of this vital ingredient. Another entirely new ingredient was produced by the Hopkins, the only source of this substance. The third of the major works carried out by the staff was the development of the proximity iVTl fuze, which has been called by many the second most important scientific product of the recent war. It was developed exclusively by the Hopa kins at Homewood and at the Applied Physics Laboratory at Silver Spring, Maryland, where the work was carried out under the direction of Dr. Merle Tuve, who received his doctorate in Phys; ics at the University. The problem, greatly simplified, was to develop a radio set the size of a package of cigarettes that would be able to be shot from a gun at a rate in excess of 2,500 feet per second. Anyone who has dropped a small radio only a few feet and then noted the near; disastrous effects will appreciate the aceomplislv ment. The expenditures on this single project were enormous. In normal times the budget of the entire University amounted to approximately three million dollars each year. At one time the laboratory at Silver Spring was running on a budget of close to sixteen million dollars per year. Professor J. A. Bearden was the leader of the work done at Hopkins itself. He had been work; ing since 19-10 on the project, as well as on coum termeasures or defenses in case the Germans should have a similar weapon. The laboratory on campus, in Rowland Hall, employed at one time between fifty and seventy'flve people and was known as the radiation laboratory. During the Battle of the Bulge, Dr. Bearden was in Europe as a scientific observer at the hrst land use of the VT. Besides these wellapublicizecl tasks, hundreds of smaller contracts were held by the University Dr. D. H. Andrews of the Chemistry Department was instrumental in the and its members. development of the superconducting bolometer, 23 a device used to Hsee objects in the dark at any distance, without disclosing the position of the observer. Dr. Hamburger of the Electrical Engi; neering Department in conjunction with Dr. Morgan of the Department of Psychology did work with radar with respect to time and motion studies. Dr. Wolman aided the government on many occasions as a consultant in Sanitary Engi, neering, having served with the War Production Board, the Navy Department, and on several committees representing the United States Goya ernrnent at international conferences concerning the problems of sanitation. The Engineering Departments' members also worked on many other tasks, including the manufacture of voltage regulators for aircraft, the development of plastic insulators, the development and application of synthetic rubbers, the banding of 106 mm. shells, and the uses of cork. The members of the Phys, ics department worked individually on a variety
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