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...deep-set eyes of Professor Arthur Holly Compton, Presbyterian and Nobel Prize physicist, darkled last week as he told a Manhattan audience that he and his University of Chicago associates will soon begin an intensive effort not only to break the hearts of atoms but also to create new atoms out of rambling electricity. These experiments may well become historic. Among the probers into the tough little universe of the atom, Professor Compton ranks with the most dexterous; and he has the great wealth and equipment of the University of Chicago at command...
...forefinger when their tips rub gently against each other is thicker than the film of glass with which Westinghouse Lamp Co. is sealing certain of its vacuum tubes. That glass is one five-thousandth of an inch thick. Last week Dr. Charles Morse Slack, the company's research physicist, received its annual $500 award for accomplishing the thin sealing...
...advertising on the part of the company, and depletes the university faculties. In this class come institutes endowed by millionaires for special advanced study, valuable as they may be to science, as they rarely hand knowledge directly to a younger generation as do the colleges," said the eminent physicist to a CRIMSON reporter...
...hydrogen. If man could make positive and negative charges rush together, annihilate their substance and become transformed into light rays, as they are believed to do in the sun's atoms, he could produce still more energy. By using fast alpha rays, Sir Ernest Rutherford, British physicist, has already knocked some protons out of the nitrogen nucleus. Last year another scientist pried into the atom's heart without blowing up the universe or himself: Dr. William Draper Harkins of the University of Chicago shot helium at nitrogen atoms, smashed them to form fluorine (TIME, April...
Professor Isidor Isaac Rabi, physicist of Columbia University: "As to blowing up the world by releasing a tremendous quantity of atomic energy-that's most improbable. The worst that could happen is that the scientists might be burned...