Word: atomization
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Smash Hit. In Los Angeles, the Burbank Burlesque Theater advertised "atom-bomb dancers...
...Albert Einstein, no experimenter, launched the idea that mass and energy are the same thing, in different states. The matter in the nucleus or core of the atom (which is practically all the matter there is) was conceived as a packet of energy in highly concentrated form...
Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...
Partnership Formed. The U.S. entered the atom race in the fall of 1939 when Franklin Roosevelt appointed an informal "Advisory Committee on Uranium." It was a small project until the Nazi panzers roared over France. Then the world was struck by a terrible urgency. On Oct. 11, 1941, nearly two months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to Winston Churchill, offering British nuclear physicists a plan to work in the U.S. Churchill accepted. The U.S. and Britain were partners...
...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...