University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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..-wx .I B wi, ., il- fist? ai! 1.1 fit. T E .gf 'mama -J.. 1. VVILLIAM E. PETERSEN JEAN F. PICCARD MILES A. TINKER Dairy Plmlmfidp-Ji Aeromnrlinzl E1Igi!ll'C'l'fI7g Pgyfholpgy THE PROFESSORS EXPERIMENT EVERY LABORATORY isn't Bunsen-burner-equipped and tograph, he is attempting to discover the structure of lined with long tables. All over the campus-in crowded molecules. offices and unsuspected real-life laboratories as well as in the science buildings-there are professors experi- menting with theories, serums and mechanical gadgets. Jean F. Piccard, professor of aeronautical engineering, whose balloon ascensions into the stratosphere are world famous, is testing the use of sounding balloons in radio transmission. Experimental study of milk secretion in dairy cattle is the basis of a recently published text on Dairy Science by Dr. XVilliam E. Petersen, professor of dairy husbandry. With a large camera, built for photographing eye movements, Miles A. Tinker, associate professor of psy- chology, is studying the effects of lighting and illumi- nation in relation to eye strain. The separation of isotopes is the experimental work which George Glackler, professor of physical chemistry, has assigned himself this year. Through use of the spec- GEORGE GLOCKLER Physical Chemistry W P! , - Jjrzofogimy D, ARM Under the direction of Dr. NVallace D. Armstrong, who is on leave on a Commonwealth fellowship, grad- uates in dentistry are doing fundamental research on the composition of teeth and bones, the prevention of tooth decay and the mechanism of bone production. The director of the Engineering Experiment Station, Dr. Frank B. Rowley, is working on problems of housing insulation to reduce summer heat and winter cold. Dr. Milan V. Norvak is perfecting a technique for making blood transfusions safer through the use of sul- fanilimide which protects blood stored in blood banksn from the growth of bacteria. Whether they use the complicated machinery of the physics department, or merely their own alert eyes and ears, the professors let no opportunity for intelligent experimentation pass unnoticed. Closely allied with every phase of academic work, it is the basis of the ideas and the proofs, the scientific writing and the study, that makes a university more than a drill-field. ALLACE Cbefrlisflj, 1155123 ONG ezzfjxfljl flfgpflvlg B- R0 Wlfllcfll L- lVLFv

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Vs. unit ,. JOHN Ii. ANDERSON Cbilfl lVelf1H'f .46 XVILBUR H. CHERRY Law 1 -'rw T. ' i 3 5 . .2 -..,-1. 1 THE PROFESSORS STUDY XVI-IIIRE Tifna NIIDNIGI-IT ou- BURNS BRIGHT, there isn't always a senior boning for a final. The faculty knows that they can never stop studying if they are to help their students and the whole world learn. Reading, com- piling and gathering statistics is a greater part of a professor's work than the short hours of his lecture sessions. Over a period of ten to fourteen years Dr. John E. Anderson, director of the Institute of Child Nvelfare, has directed longitudinal, or long term, studies of the physical, mental and social growth and change of children. The Supreme Court has appointed NVilbur H. Cherry, professor of law, to a committee which will study revision of federal rules and statutes. Two other studies of law are in progress. The first is Roy G. Blal4ey's work on the federal income tax which is approaching the subject from the angle of distribu- tion. Also under way is his study of total and percentage income in the State of Minnesota. The fair trade laws and their effect on drug prices are being investigated by Associate Professor Harry Ostlund of the business school, whose survey will cover the entire United States. Kenneth H. Baker, assistant professor of psychology, has done extensive work on public opinion polls in an effort to determine and increase their accuracy. Through his study of Raimbaut d'Orange, a Provencal troubador, Walter T. Pattison, associate professor of romance languages, was able to locate twenty-three man- uscripts during a year in Paris and a summer in Avignon to add to the four that were available onthe poet when his work began. Dr. Peter J. Brekhus, professor of medical science, is making a study of mouth Conditions of freshmen which will form the basis for a ten-year comparison. But every professor studies. If a student works two hours for each hour of class, a professor works four or forty. From their painstaking research comes the hnger- tip knowledge that modern life demands. ROY G. BLAKEY BIIXTIIFXS KENNETH H. BAKER Psychology WALTER T. PATTISON HARRY J. OSTLUND Romanre Languages Business

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Til if ' lbw 'fi few frat .au Qt Lf bat Z! ,1 tate! EYXSON LLOYDClELmist1'3' NW - - 5 . XL1'9Xl3w I,b5e1a'S MEMS Expt VXS wi. DA . s EDXwARY?1'i171cI1f gfniion JOHN D. AKERMAN V YVTZYL 1lv1'ol1i1I1linll Ellgillfffillg THE PROFESSORS INVENT GADGETS AND GREAT MACIHIINES ALIKE are produced by professors who need equipment for their work. Resource- ful faculty men meet the mechanical obstacles that delay their study and research, and at the same time provide invaluable tools that mean progress to industry. Fifteen different plane designs have given John D. Alterman, head of the aeronautical engineering depart- ment, a leading place among the country's airplane de- signers. He developed the hrst low wing, twin motor cabin plane in the United States. The mechanism for processing North Dakota lignite to obtain a large yield of high hydrogen gas is being perfected by Dr. Lloyd H. Reyerson, professor of chem- istry. At the Mines Experiment Station, Professor NW. Davis is at work on the problem of providing equipment and techniques for using the vast tonnages of low grade ore in the northern Minnesota iron mines. John T. Tate, who is still a physicist although his oflicial title is Dean of the Arts College, is determining the amount of energy required to break up molecules through the use of the mass spectrograph. Artificial earthquakes are made and measured by the geophysical truck developed by Wilfred W. Wetzel, as- sistant professor of geophysics, who uses the device to locate subsurface gravel, limestone and granite. A vacuum spectrograph with a tube twenty feet long l JOHN T. TATE is the latest bit of laboratory equipment put into use by Joseph Valasek, associate professor of physics. He is studying molecules through the spectrum they emit. JOSEPH VALASEK Sc'ir'l16z', Liivrzrfurv and fbi' rlrfs Pb5fllf'f