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This, according to the researchers, is probably what happens: The attacking alpha particle joins a boron atom to form a neutron (which flies off) and an unstable nitrogen atom which in a few seconds or minutes changes to a carbon atom with the release of a positron. Hence, just as the spontaneous radioactivity of radium turns it finally into lead, the end-product of boron's artificial radioactivity is carbon. Not only boron but magnesium and aluminum became radioactive under similar treatment...
...Curie-Joliot report stirred Lord Rutherford, director of Cavendish Laboratory, to begin confirming experiments. Said he, "It is remarkable that the life of the unstable atom produced is as long as it is. We do not know whether the atoms so far made artificially radioactive are typical or whether other unstable atoms which may be produced will have a longer or shorter life. The discovery of the Joliots shows how little we really know about radioactivity...
...away from the workshop only a month. She and M. Joliot get up at 5:30, write their papers ("What a burden!"), are glad to reach the laboratory at 9. They keep long hours, find no time for theatres and concerts. For three months in summer they leave the atom in peace, take the children to grandmother Curie's place on the Brittany coast. There is never a thought of dividing scientific credit. Husband and wife work like one person with two heads, four hands, 20 fingers. "We compare notes," says M. Joliot, "and exchange our thoughts so constantly...
...Carbon Atom," Professor Kohler, Mallinckrodt MB22...
...Steel "seems to have mellowed, and, if one may say so, he seems more human [than three years ago]. During the previous interview I was particularly struck by the low tonelessness of M. Stalin's voice - as if he felt the need of conserving every atom of energy for his gigantic task. Now he shows more animation and less restraint...