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Lord Rutherford, discoverer of the atom's nucleus, pioneer atom-smasher and fourth Cavendish Professor, died last year...
...Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford), accomplished the first disintegration of an atom's nucleus, the first transmutation of one element into another. Using for bullets the particles which fly naturally out of radium, Rutherford made oxygen out of nitrogen...
...Francis William Aston invented the mass-spectrograph, which measures the mass of atoms by recording their paths in a magnetic field. The principle is that the degree of curvature of an atom's path under magnetic attraction depends on its mass. This instrument was of enormous value in the study of isotopes, which are atoms of the same element having different weights...
Some $75,000 of Baron Austin's money will go for modernizing the lecture halls. A big new laboratory for research on the atom-with library, conference room and tea room-will eat up $500,000. Another $50,000 went into a 36-ft. high-voltage atom-smasher. This hurls atomic bullets at controlled energies up to 2,000,000 electron-volts. Still another $30,000 was laid out for a cyclotron-an atom-smashing machine of the type invented by the University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, which spirals atomic bullets up to huge speeds...
Economists have about the same fun drawing conclusions from the weekly reports of the Federal Reserve System as scientists do drawing new diagrams of the atom. On one series of the complex Federal Reserve statistics all commentators are agreed-that the rise and fall of commercial loans by U. S. banks is usually a good measure of business activity. Thus, all through Depression II the volume of credit issued to business has fallen (with occasional minor reversals) some $20,000,000 a week in New York City, another $20,000,000 in the rest of the U. S. Last week...