Word: atomization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicists will never be happy until they take the atom completely apart. Most of them already consider the atom bomb just a frontier skirmish. Last week they gathered at the University of California to discuss the big topic in nuclear physics: subatomic particles. To the American Physical Society, U.S. atom-busters described carefully laid plans for further busting...
Until recently, atomic physicists thought they knew nearly everything there was to know about the atom. Now, Nuclear Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer told the meeting, they are "frankly puzzled." The notion that an atom consists only of electrons, protons and neutrons has been knocked into a cocked hat by the discovery of mystifying sub-particles -positrons, mesotrons, and a hypothetical particle called the neutrino...
Nobody knows, said Oppenheimer, how the sub-particles fit together or affect each other. To find out, physicists must somehow duplicate the atom-smashing carried on in nature by cosmic rays...
...walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...
...Most extreme example: Fifth Avenue's Ricardo's jewelry advertisement: "BURSTING FURY -Atomic Inspired Pin & Earring. New fields to conquer with Atomic jewelry. The pearled bomb bursts into a fury of dazzling colors in mock rhinestones, emeralds, rubies and sapphires. . . . As daring to wear as it was to drop the first atom bomb. Complete...