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Last week, the institute invited three more famous names to join its lighthouse of civilization. The three: Denmark's Nobel Prizewinning Physicist Niels D. Bohr (who has been there once before), British Historian Arnold J. Toynbee (who presumably will work on the last volumes of A Study of History) and Poet T. S. Eliot (St. Louis-born, but a British subject since 1927). The institute didn't ask them what they would do; it was satisfied to let grown-up minds continue growing...
...Radiation (published in 1901) was something vastly more important: Planck's "universal constant" (6.624 x 10 -27 erg-seconds), now considered one of the three fundamental figures in the universe.* Planck's constant enabled Einstein to conceive the "photon" (particle of radiation). It also made possible Niels Bohr's model of the atom. It turned up in spectroscopy, in the study of X rays, in electronics. Upon it is based the whole science of quantum (wave) mechanics...
...lesser powers are concentrating on research rather than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
...front of a blackboard white with diagrams and equations, Nils Bohr, the inventor of the atom as it is conceived by theoretical physicists everywhere, brought an overflowing crowd in Mallin-krodt's Large Lecture Room up to date on. "The Present State of the Theory of Elemental Particles" yesterday...
...Bohr stressed the curious paradoxes and blind alleys measuring the location and momentum of electrons by either the classical rules of mechanics or Planck's Quantum Theory. He concluded however, with an optimistic outlook towards future discovery...