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Heretofore, the inquisitive layman has been forced to stand in awe outside the wooden fence, listening mystified to the dull roar of the great machine. Now, for the first time, he will be able to find out just what is going on inside by reading "Why Smash Atoms?" by Arthur K. Soloman, research associate in Physics and Chemistry, which will be published tomorrow by the Harvard University Press...
They are finally shot like projectiles against a target of another substance, such as sodium, and smash a number of the sodium atoms. This changes the nature of these atoms and makes the sodium radioactive...
...Smash Atoms...
...survivor, Thomas H. Jones, said later: "I thought the world was coming to an end. . . ." Said Dr. Harold Thompson: "There was a terrible smash, bang and roar, followed by a queer grinding. ... I was tossed along the aisle of the car. There was utter darkness. The most remarkable thing was the great silence that followed...
...inch telescope. Or it may be a crucial matter of dollars. Last week University of California's Ernest Orlando Lawrence, newest U. S. Nobel Prizeman, passed such a turning point when it was disclosed that the Rockefeller Foundation would give him $1,150,000 to smash atoms as atoms have never been smashed before...