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...most fascinating things in the world. Studying science at Bethlehem Academy in Faribault, Minn., her grave, shining brown eyes seldom missed a trick. Rosella was pious, too, and she intended to enter the Catholic sisterhood. But she knew that in this day and age a nun could be a scientist, if she were smart as well as conscientious...
...kind of uranium for neutron-splitting or "fission" is the isotope called U-235.- This kind is scarce and extremely difficult to separate from the common isotope, 11-238. So far, not enough U-235 has been isolated to put in a fruit fly's eye. A Swedish scientist was beginning to speed up the process with gadgets called thermal diffusion tubes when the war stopped him. Another line of attack is with centrifuges - whirling machines which work like cream separators...
...member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
Like Blackout, Night Train has a spy-story pattern pasted against a war background. It begins in Czecho-Slovakia, moves to England, hurries back to Germany, then to Switzerland during a hectic scramble for the possession of a Czech scientist (James Harcourt) with secret plans in his head for a new type of steel plate. His trim, saucy daughter (Margaret Lockwood) strings along, meets with handsome British and German intelligence officers (Rex Harrison and Paul von Hern-reid), scrambles matters by failing to recognize for some time Mr. Right...
...Candidates of 1940. No artist, no athlete, no scientist, only a man whose place was on the stage of world politics, could be Man of 1940-last and stormiest year of a stormy decade...