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Like many another elderly and distinguished scientist, Britain's Lord Ernest Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's electrical structure, has a way of having his way. Few weeks ago he published an article in which he referred to the tripleweight atom of hydrogen, generally called tritium, as "triterium." When this verbal goblin reached the eye of Dr. Kenneth Claude Bailey, professor of physical chemistry and authority on chemical etymology at University of Dublin, Dr. Bailey promptly took pen in hand and wrote a letter of protest which appeared in Nature last week. Excerpt: "The word 'deuterium...
...seemed that he had a right to name it. The nucleus was called the "deuton." Dr. Rutherford did not like these names, especially "deuton," which he declared was likely to be confused by Englishmen with "neutron," particularly if the speaker had a cold. Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom "diplogen" and its nucleus the "diplon," and a number of British scientists seemed willing to follow his lead, despite a polite but barbed letter which Dr. Urey and his associates rushed off to England posthaste (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934). Peace was restored when Lord Rutherford agreed to accept "deuterium...
Last year Gray published his first book, New World Picture. It described current developments in physics from the inside of the atom to the bounds of the universe, traced their beginnings back to the stagnant period at the end of the 19th Century, won the approval even of such tough-minded critics as Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Review. In The Advancing Front of Science, Gray does not confine himself to physics. It is, he says, "an attempt to report news rather than summarize history." In it readers will find such various nuggets as the heredity...
...starting a whole popularization movement within his university, now plans to write a few serious publications to satisfy sticklers among his colleagues, spend the rest of his life composing "funny books" like From Galileo to Cosmic Rays-one of them, soon to be published, a breezy discussion of atom-smashing...
Then Svedberg, Wyckoff and others weighed & measured the giants by whirling them in powerful ultracentrifuges. Stanley found that the virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease in plants is a huge molecule, which was weighed by Svedberg and Wyckoff at 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. The virus of noninfectious rabbit warts was isolated as a protein molecule weighing 20,000,000 units...