Word: atomizers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stanley showed. The biggest known, they weigh 17 million times as much as a hydrogen atom, nearly one million times as much as a molecule of water. Left by themselves they are inert. But in contact with living plant or animal material they multiply incessantly. Under some conditions the virus protein molecule changes its inner structure all by itself. It then causes a totally different disease...
...anthropologists in Washington, chemists in Manhattan and Princeton. As usual, the biggest and best publicized gathering was that of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which had chosen Atlantic City for a meeting place, and where, if he wished, an ichthyologist could listen to an atom-smasher and a cosmologist to a breeder of fruit flies...
Approach to Unity. Herculean struggle of modern theoretical physics is to find a mathematical system which will handle both the atom and the universe...
...Birkhoff system, the hydrogen atom is contemplated as a mixture of two "perfect fluids"-the positive electricity of the nucleus, the negative electricity of the surrounding electron. The disturbance created in the fluids by a particle or light rav from outside can be expressed, very roughly speaking, as though they were water rippled by a falling stone. Furthermore, the expression can be formulated in Relativistic terms. Whether atoms with more than one electron can be crammed into the same mold remains to be seen...
...scientists are suited by temperament and intellect to keep vigil on the heights where paradox flourishes in the wind of metaphysics and knowledge fades into the unknown-to clock the flight of star-clouds, chop the atom's nucleus into mathematical hash or chase the primordial life-germ through a thicket of test tubes. Some workers must patrol the vales & swales where humbler things may be found beneath any stone. Such upturned stones in recent weeks disclosed the following...