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Local reporting--William L. Laurence of the New York Times "for his eye-witness account of the atom-bombing of Nagasaki...
Kapitza had come late to the problems of atomic energy. Though he earned his fame in the laboratory of Britain's great Lord Rutherford, the man who first smashed the atom, he worked there on magnetism, which was only indirectly connected with nuclear energy. Since magnetism was best studied at extremely low temperatures, Kapitza became an authority on the liquefaction of gases at close to absolute zero...
...plant near Brownsville to make gasoline from natural gas. Behind Carthage Hydrocol are eight large companies,* which were willing to risk $10,000,000 of their own cash, and Texas-born Percival Cleveland ("Dobie") Keith, the red-faced, hurry-up man who bossed the construction of the famed atom-bomb plant at Oak Ridge...
...major corporation smart enough to operate one of the Oak Ridge atom plants and with a large legal department (not to mention outside counsel paid an annual retainer of $30,000), this was a major boner. Only five days before, the U.S. Treasury had announced that the difference between the market and option price of stocks sold to employes will be taxed as income. (Previously there was no tax on exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then...
This stunt was no mere atomic doodle. It promised the ideal measuring stick for which scientists have been crying. Since 1893, they had used as their primary standard the wavelength of a narrow band of red light in the spectrum of cadmium. Theoretically, a band of green light in the mercury spectrum would be even better: 1) the mercury atom, heavier than cadmium, gives light with a more sharply defined wavelength; 2) mercury vapor glows at low temperatures, while cadmium must be heated very...