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Problems of Chemistry. Dr. Pitzer's youth is no handicap in the still-young world of atomic energy, but the fact that he is a chemist rather than a physicist may surprise a good many scientists. The AEC's official explanation is that the work of the commission's laboratories is tending more & more toward chemistry. One of the urgent tasks is getting uranium out of low-grade ores. Another: chemical separation of the dangerous radioactive byproducts of plutonium manufacture. Says Dr. Pitzer: "The problems holding up the Atomic Energy Commission are chiefly chemical ones. The problems...
...Physicist Dean B. Cowie, 28, was standing about two feet away from the new cyclotron at Carnegie Institution of Washington. The date was Dec. 31, 1943. Unexpectedly, the cyclotron worked on its first trial. Cowie was hit by a charge of neutrons that may have been as much as 15 million volts. In spite of three operations, he is now blind in one eye. He can barely see out of the other, but hopes it will improve after an operation...
...first X-ray pictures ever made had nothing to do with pure science. In 1895, German Physicist Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen made an X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, to make her appreciate the work he was doing and forgive him for having slighted her cooking...
...Minneapolis, TIME "stringer" Jay Edgerton buttonholed Frank Oppenheimer, University of Minnesota physicist, whose near-hero worship for his older brother blossomed after hours of conversation. It was a rewarding interview, out of which came a warm picture of the Oppenheimer family life and many a revealing anecdote about Robert...
...Boston, Correspondent Jeff Wylie talked to Physicist Percy Williams Bridgman and other Harvard professors who had taught Oppenheimer there. One thing Wylie noticed was that the 1926 class album has nothing more to say about Oppenheimer at Harvard than "in college, three years as undergraduate...