Word: atom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electrical charge of the electron, the indivisible unit of all electricity. For that Dr. Millikan won a 1923 Nobel Prize. Last week two other Caltech men-Jesse W. M. du Mond and Harry Kirkpatrick- reported the perfection of another device, to measure the speed of electrons moving within atoms. A serviceable description of the structure of an atom is this: At its core are, according to the particular kind of atom, 1 to 238 protons (positive charges of electricity). The hydrogen atom (simplest) has one proton at its nucleus. Helium (next simplest) has four nuclear protons. But two are herded...
...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...
...could duplicate on earth the 40.000.000° C. at which the sun's centre boils, he might do what he wished with electrons and protons. At that temperature matter's subunits dance around each other and coalesce as atoms; atoms break up into their electron and proton elements; and every explosion, every coalescence scatters atomic energy. Professor Compton cannot duplicate solar heat, but with a mighty X-ray tube, he calculates, he can drive particles of matter at speeds so nearly solar that new atoms will result. His tool will be a 10,000-volt tube, five times...
...there are eleven, authors attack their task in the proper spirit. Every man writes with his tongue in his cheek which allows sly digs and graceful whimsy. "If" is meant purely for purposes of entertainment and it will fulfill that purpose for those people who have an atom of imagination about them...
Cosmic rays are shortest and most penetrating. They are the quivers of the gestating universe and the twitchings of dying matter. It is supposed that when vagabond rhythms of space collide and entangle, a pristine atom is born and a cosmic ray darts away from the medley, that when aged protons and electrons bash each other to death, the offshoot of their antagonism is a cosmic...