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...standard table of elements lists 92-from hydrogen, the lightest element, to uranium, the heaviest. An atom of hydrogen has one positive charge on the nucleus and one planetary electron; uranium has a positive nuclear charge of 92, and 92 attendant electrons. The existence of all these elements has been well established, except for Nos. 85 and 87 (alabamine and virginium),† whose discovery has been claimed by various investigators but not yet certainly confirmed. The existence of elements heavier than uranium is theoretically possible. In fact, such heavy elements of higher numbers than 92 are supposed to exist...
Jean Baptiste Perrin has studied the atom all his long life. Born at Lille during the Franco-Prussian War, he became a professor of physical chemistry at the University of Paris in 1910, became an expert on molecular oscillations and the Brownian movement (movement of visible particles in liquids because of impacts from flying molecules). In 1926 he was awarded a Nobel Prize. Today he is president of the French Academy of Sciences. Last week he announced the discovery of naturally occurring ekarhenium-element...
Studies of the vastness of the universe and the invisible smallness of the atom are remote from the things of everyday life. Scientists also go far from familiar things in the study of low temperatures. Hydrogen liquefies at 252.7° below zero Centigrade and helium liquefies at - 268.9°. Compared to such temperatures, the inside of an ice-cream freezer is a seething furnace. The utmost cold, absolute zero (zero on the Kelvin scale), comes out at - 273.13° on the arbitrary Centigrade scale (zero for the freezing point of water, 100 for the boiling point). Scientists have not quite...
...some region or other of the universe. Hannes Alfven of Sweden's Upsala University holds that the rays are free-moving particles in space accelerated to cosmic ray energies by the magnetic fields of spinning double stars - somewhat as the man-made machine called the cyclotron speeds up atom-smashing particles to high velocities by means of repeated electrical pushes...
...Louis de Broglie. Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schrodinger of Germany and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac of England had been expected but did not appear. These five men alone have created almost the whole structure of Quantum Mechanics, which deals mathematically with the mathematically complex innards of the atom. Presumably, Herren Heisenberg and Schrodinger were forbidden to attend because of the Nazi Government's antipathy for the League of Nations. Why Dirac of democratic Britain did not appear was not disclosed. Physicist Heisenberg's paper was presented for him by colleagues from Belgium and Holland...