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Word: breit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paper. Dr. Merle A. Tuve, physicist of the Carnegie Institution's department of terrestrial magnetism, read a paper worth $1,000, the annual Association award for outstanding address of the meeting. With three fellow physicists, Drs. L. R. Hafsted and Odd Dahl of Carnegie Institution and Dr. Gregory Breit of New York University, he worked for several years to develop a two-million-volt tube which produces X-rays equivalent to the gamma rays of 182 million dollars worth of radium. Laboratory significance : scientists by using these powerful rays may be able to burst the atom nucleus. Practical significance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A. A. A. S. | 1/12/1931 | See Source »

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