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...Other element-hunters polished off some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...
They started the job, however, in about the same way as their rivals, and came to the same initial conclusions. One way to get atomic energy, they decided, was to separate the reactive U-235 from the other uranium isotopes. The U.S. did this successfully at Oak Ridge, Tenn., but the Germans soon concluded that the enormous industrial effort required would be too much for war-burdened Germany...
President Truman got ready to offer the world's scientists free access to an atomic byproduct-the radioisotopes produced in Oak Ridge's atomic piles, generally considered the most important aid to medical research since the invention of the microscope...
...conditions: 1) the recipients must state the purpose for which they intend to use the isotopes and agree to stick to that purpose; 2) they must make progress reports to the U.S.; 3) they must open their laboratories to visiting scientists from other countries. Prices were low, but F.O.B. Oak Ridge...
...right way, legends could make history livelier, at the same time show the youngsters how to recognize bias, exaggeration, propaganda. Among the great American fact-&-fiction stories on Thursfield's list: Isabella pawning her jewels to finance Columbus, the hiding of the Connecticut Charter in the Charter Oak, the exploits of Daniel Boone, the saving of Oregon by Marcus Whitman, the Lincoln-Ann Rutledge romance...