Word: alpha
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filter presses and decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...
Many and bewildering are the tiny speeks of matter which participate in the phenomena of nuclear physics, and the last few years have seen a frantic scientific big-game hunt which has successively laid low electrons, protons, positrons, photons, neutrons, alpha and gamma particles. After approximately three years of research, physicists Street and Stevenson have definitely decided that yet another particle should be added to the list. They haven't named it yet, feeling that they should become a little better acquainted with their research-child before they give it an identity...
...million people who listen to Major Bowes and his amateurs, Murray Hill is the name of a New York telephone exchange which you call to vote for your favorite. To Kappa Alpha's Feg Murray, the cartoonist, it stands for a section of the city of New York named for his family...
Then in the New Lecture Hall at 8 o'clock three of the University's leading scientists join in a symposium on "Climate in the Living World." Participants, sponsored by the Gamma Alpha scientific fraternity, are William C. Darrah, Research Curator of the Botanical Museum and instructor in Botany; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Derwent S. Whittlesey, associate professor of Geology...
...Botanical Museum, Kirtley F. Mather, Professor of Geology, and Derwent S. Whittlesey, Associate Professor of Geography, will combine their talents in addressing a symposium on "Climate and the Living World," scheduled for tomorrow night at New Lecture Hall. The meeting is being sponsored by the Harvard Chapter of Gamma Alpha Scientific Fraternity and will convene at 8 o'clock...