San Francisco, Jan. 15.
Captain Thomas See, naval as
the most prominent opponent of the tronomer who has become probably theories advanced by" Dr. Albert Einstein, announced to-day that he will retire from naval service on'
February 19 in order to give his entire time to science.
He has been stationed at, More Island, in San Francisco Bay, h been 'a professor of mathematics for the U.S. Navy since 1899.
Captain' See varches_include work on observation of about 200,000 fixed stars, causes of earthquakes, laws of the formation of the solar' system, the cause of sun spots and researches in transcendental geometry and the nature of space.
He has been given credit for achieving determination of the depth of the.""Milky Way" at! several million light-years, which is said to have' "expanded the extent of the universe about 1,000 times."—United Press.
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