Word: atomization
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...student guide service for a general tour of the Yard, a Special Alumni Exhibit at Widener Library, and visits to the Cyclotron ("Atom-Smasher") attracted the attention of those who did not attend the classes...
During the day-long program the alumni will visit classes and laboratories, lunch in the college dining halls, see the Harvard-Yale football game replayed on the screen, and take part in an afternoon symposium. Visits to the cyclotron atom-smasher and special tours of Widener are scheduled...
Britain's William Lawrence Bragg once described the atom as "like someone's head [i.e., the nucleus] with a cloud of mosquitoes [i.e., electrons] buzzing around it." Sir Arthur Eddington confessed that he pictured electrons as little red balls. But physicists have long since stopped trying to visualize the atom. As understood today the electron has become almost a dreamlike abstraction. It does not obey the laws of cause and effect. Nevertheless, even in quantum mechanics, the abstruse mathematics of the atom, the electron is assigned a constant electric charge, e, and a constant mass, m. Thus...
Last week suave, British-born William Francis Gray Swann, director of the Franklin Institute's Bartol Research Foundation in Swarthmore, Pa., suggested that even the notion of charged particles might be jettisoned. He preferred to think of the atom as just a region of "wiggling knottiness," a something free to behave in any way it likes. In psychology, the behaviorists and mechanists refuse to worry about what the human mind really is, study it as a series of behavior patterns. Dr. Swann fancies atomic behaviorism...
...same 92 standard elements from some of which earth's life is formed appear to be universal. No one, even with the most powerful microscope, has ever seen an atom. But modern astronomy, by splitting starlight in spectroscopes where atoms leave their signatures in parallel lines, has identified chemical elements in stars trillions and quadrillions of miles away. There is no reason to suppose that life cannot exist in worlds beyond earth for lack of suitable materials...