Show Youth of World Leads Way in Search Search- For Mysteries of Our lOur Physical EartH Eart By WATSON DAVIS Managing Editor Science Service From out of youthful minds has come the revolution that is stirring the conceptions of the physical world about us Professor Albert Einstein was In his twenties when In 1905 he first enunciated elated his theories of relativity and light ight quanta out of which modern theories theories the the- ories ones of ot physics were born At about the time that Einstein's thoughts struck fire those who were to carry it forward were babes In arms Professor Werner now of Leipsic Is just past 30 His first paper issued in the t fall ll of 1925 set alight aUght the great blaze of today's theoretical theoretical theo theo- advance known as quantum mechanics As originator of this revolutionary revolutionary rev new theory he is acknowledged acknowledged edged as a leader In those realms of mathematics and physics that at present pres pres- ent eat lie on the frontier Heisenberg Is father of ot the principle of uncertainty which smashed the philosophical concepts concepts concepts con con- of classical physics although It has not vitiated the practical eal eng engineering engi engl uses of the principles of ci physics He pointed out that it is impossible to know both the exact location and exact time of ot a happening happen ing which Is a disturbing Idea Lecturing Lecturing Lec Lee turing at the University of Michi Michigan an anthis this month Professor has announced a a new theory of atom building that explains explain the way in which radium and other elements spontaneously disintegrate Dr P. P A. A M. M Dirac a British cic list with a French name has just bce been appointed to succeed Sir Joseph Larmor Larmor Lar- Lar mor In the chair of mathematics mathe matics at Cambridge England He Be is just 30 He Is one of f the mathematical mathe maine geniuses of the age develop Ing lag his own math mathematics to solve olve his theoretical problems instead of using formulae already worked out He tossed the flaming Ideas of Heise berg onward inventing ways of unraveling mathematical cal tangles In this country and abroad there are several dozen other youthful physIcists who arc revealing the structure and laws of nature Most Meat of them are within a few years of that same energetic age of 30 The older scientists are continuing to do their share a new generation isnow is isnow isnow now iIi fri training to seize the torch but at present the stream of at knowledge seems to run swiftest with those thos at atone atone atone one score and ten |