Word: atom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...figures for the façade of the British Medical Association's new building in the Strand. For his theme he chose The Birth of Energy and his uncompromising, starkly modeled figures represented such ideas as Primal Energy (a nude man blowing the breath of life into an atom), The Brain (a figure holding a winged skull), Manliness (a figure whose physical attributes were very obvious). Preachers and conservative editors roared denunciation...
...which causes tobacco mosaic disease. Crystallization is a property of nonliving matter but when the virus was applied to the leaf it promptly acquired the ability to reproduce itself-a characteristic of life. The virus is a giant molecule weighing 17,000,000 times as much as a hydrogen atom. Dr. Stanley found the molecule to be spherical, with a diameter of .0000002 cm. When Dr. Langmuir made a monofilm of the virus and then transferred the film to a glass plate where its thickness could be measured, he found that the molecule had flattened out like a pancake...
...short years ago mathematical builders of the universe got along with two fundamental particles, the proton and the electron. The proton was the nucleus of the simplest atom, hydrogen. It had a charge of positive electricity and its mass was .0000000000000000000000166 gram. The electron, which in the hydrogen atom throbbed alone around the nuclear proton, had a negative charge matching the proton's positive charge and its mass was 1,847 times less than that of the other particle. The more complex atoms of other elements were constructed from various combinations of electrons and protons...
...that a negative proton might be expected to exist." Anderson had also declared himself for this particle; Gamow of Russia thought it might help to explain artificial radioactivity. Max Born, distinguished German exile now in England, guessed that in some distant regions of the universe the rule of the atom might be reversed-negative protons at the core and positive electricity outside...
Years of extensive research conducted carefully and systematically but its former subscribers, have failed to isolate that elusive atom known to students to Cambridge's better tutoring bureaus as "The Harvard Crimson." But the deductive method applied to a story which apeared recently on the front page of that publication, has finally solved the mystery...