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...expressing astonishment at her learning, and then married. Becquerel's accidental discovery of radioactivity of uranium compounds in 1896 excited them greatly. They obtained a ton of pitchblende from the Austrian Government, began a long series of crushings, pulverizations, leachings, precipitations, crystallizations with apparatus at which a modern physicist would sneer. Much of the time Mme Curie spent stirring a cauldron with an iron rod as thick as one of her thin arms. At last they had a thimbleful of a white salt. In it they found first polonium, finally radium...
...Physicist Arthur Holly Compton Sc.D...
Most assiduous imitator of the Curie-Joliots is Professor Enrico Fermi, 32, Italian physicist. Using neutrons instead of alpha particles or deutons, he has produced radioactive forms of two dozen elements from fluorine to barium...
...start at some more or less definite time in the ancient past? . . . The possibility of synthetically preparing chlorophyll and through its action storing chemically the power from the sun in a more efficient way than can be done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years...
...Vleck, the well-known physicist, graduated from Wisconsin in 1920, and took his Masters' and Doctor's degrees here. After serving an instructorship here, he taught at the University of Minnesota, Leland Stanford, and finally at Wisconsin. He has done research work on the quantum theory and is the author of many scientific pamphlets. His duties next year will be divided between mathematics, quantum mathematics, and his research work...