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...passed this idea on to Denmark's great atomist, Niels Bohr, who was just about to leave for Princeton. Bohr told U.S. experimenters about it. They sprang to their atom-smashing machines and quickly confirmed it (TIME, Feb. 6, March 13, 1939). They also stood gallantly back while Dr. Meitner published the first notes on uranium splitting. She called it "fission," a familiar word in biology but a new term for physics...
Despite these two absences, and that of Denmark's illustrious Atomist Niels Bohr, Harvard was scarcely more proud last week of its 300 years than of the distinguished company it had gathered to help celebrate that milestone. Summoned to the two-week Harvard Tercentenary Conference on Arts & Sciences were 2,500-odd savants, among whom 72 first-magnitude luminaries were to read papers. On hand were no less than 1 1 Nobel Prize-winners.* Purpose of this great galaxy of learning was to survey the present state of the physical, biological and social sciences and their impact...
...tiny secret stars that whirl in thumbnail welkins. Perhaps the most encouraging trait of humanity is the ingenuity which it exhibits in making such discoveries; and perhaps the most discouraging trait in humanity is the lack of ingenuity which it exhibits in making use of them. The young atomist, accordingly, tells the British Cabinet about his findings, and its members, absolutely unable to think of anything to do about it, offer to put him in jail...
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