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Show FAMOUS SCIENTIST DIES ON TRaIn EN ROUTE TO RECEIVE FURTHER AWARDS i En route to receive a high honor in New York City, Prof. Harry Bateman, worid-famed Cal-tech Cal-tech mathematician who collaborated collab-orated with Dr. Albert Einstein in working out the theory of relativity, relativ-ity, died suddenly Monday on an eastbound passenger train between Lund and Milford. The body was taken off the train at 1:15 p. m. at Milford. Mrs. Diana McCulley, a registered nurse, was called to attend at-tend the scientist's wife until a physician could be reached. Mrs. Bateman was accompanying her husband to New Yorkwhen he was stricken with a heart attack. She remained in Milford under Mrs. McCulley's care until she had recovered re-covered from the shock, and later made arrangements for shipment of the body to California. A member of the Caltech staff dnce 1911, Dr. Bateman was unique in that he held professorships in three fielJo, mathematics, physics aiic- aeronautics. In 1904-05 he was so close to the discovery of the pccial theory of relativity that he, instead of Dr. Einstein, might have teen given credit for the then-revolutionary then-revolutionary concept. ' Dr. Bateman was the author of many mathematics texts. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ethel Bateman; a daughter, Joan Bateman, and a sister, Miss Annie Bateman, also relatives in the east. |