Word: atomical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Practically all the chemists who witnessed the experiment believed that Dr. Bonhoeffer had split the hydrogen atom. Newspapers so reported the event. That was ridiculous. The hydrogen atom, simplest of the 92 elements, has a single proton at its centre and a single electron swinging around that centre. The two may be particles or they may be waves. (The experiment tended to prove that they were waves.) But they are indivisible. To break them up would wipe them out of existence. However, the hydrogen molecule is composed of two hydrogen atoms. Chemists and physicists have believed that both electrons revolve...
...Throughout the "A B C Countries"-where even the most potent U. S. news services are represented chiefly by native correspondents- banquets are considered major news. In a single day, last week, one such news service received five "banquet stories," not one of which contained an atom of what U. S. citizens consider news...
...Chem. Atom. Chem, Atom...
...John Mills, Director of Publications, Bell Telephone Laboratories, New York City, will lecture on "The Photo Electric Cell and its Uses in Communication", illustrated by talking motion pictures. Dr. Mills is a writer on scientific subjects who is already well known through his popular books, such as "Within the Atom" and "A Radio Engineer's Letters to His Son." The photo electric cell is the key to much of the recent development in television and talking motion pictures
...young man, however, by knowing the secret of the atom, appears to have gained the ability to destroy the entire world at a moment's notice. After two acts of argument, this is the necessity with which he is faced, and the Cabinet sits, engaged in nervous little pastimes, waiting for doom, while a clock ticks and the audience remembers happily that it is all a play. Then one member of the Cabinet gets the bright idea of murdering the scientist...