Word: atomistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...passed this idea on to Denmark's great atomist, Niels Bohr, who was just about to leave for Princeton. Bohr told U.S. experimenters about it. They sprang to their atom-smashing machines and quickly confirmed it (TIME, Feb. 6, March 13, 1939). They also stood gallantly back while Dr. Meitner published the first notes on uranium splitting. She called it "fission," a familiar word in biology but a new term for physics...
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