Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Children of Recovery" first appeared at the Chemical Industries Exhibit in New York City, where they so interested Arthur B. Lamb, Erving Professor of Chemistry, that he had them brought here. The present display is sponsored by the Boylston Chemical Club and the Harvard Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, national honorary chemical fraternity...
...still alive, her old heart was proud that her shy young daughter and her brilliant young son-in-law were showing themselves to be able and devoted scientists. In the Curie Laboratory of Paris' Institut du Radium Irène Curie-Joliot and Jean Frederic Joliot were shooting alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) at the lightweight element beryllium. Strange rays hopped out of the beryllium. Fed into paraffin, the rays knocked out protons (hydrogen nuclei) at dizzy speeds of one-tenth the velocity of light. What were the strange rays...
...Paris last year the Curie-Joliots were firing alpha particles at another light element-boron. Neutrons leaped out. But after the bombardment stopped, the boron continued to emit positive electrons as though the attack had stirred it into a sort of radioactivity. This unlooked-for discovery made necessary a new phrase: artificial radioactivity (TIME...
Brothers in Phi Alpha Delta at Wisconsin remember him for his overwhelming and convivial friendliness...
...sort of boy wonder in Henderson, Kentucky, his home town. Roughing it later as a minstrel end-man and a showboat entertainer, he departed the tinseled and shabby byways of trouping to enter the University of Kentucky. There he began a one-man show, starring Tom Riley, Pi Kappa Alpha. He produced student revuea, directed the university players, the Strollers; announced over WHAS. University of Kentucky station; and found time to go to movies and review them for the "Kernel...