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...physics prize was divided between Britain's Sir John D. Cockcroft and Ulsterman E.T.S. Walton. Working as a team at Cambridge, England, they built a high-voltage machine in 1932, seven years before the discovery of uranium fission, which smashed lithium atoms, turning each into two helium nuclei and a powerful jolt of energy. The Cockcroft-Walton reaction is inefficient, but the energy that it produces is genuinely nuclear, released when mass is turned into energy...
...pushed to enormous velocity by cyclotrons or other "particle accelerators." So Richter may have gotten his "high temperatures" and "thermonuclear reactions" merely by the old trick of accelerating charged particles. Just after Perón's first announcement, Richter hinted that an article by British Physicist Sir John Cockcroft told what line he was following. Cockcroft described how, in 1932, he shot protons against a lithium target and turned the lithium into helium plus energy...
...other hints of Richter's suggest that he may have been working along the lines of the Cockcroft reaction. Richter remarked that he had bought a special photoelectric cell for his experiments. Such a cell would be useful for observing flashes of light given off by the lithium-helium reaction. Richter also said that he was using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week...
...many Lake County white men still muttered darkly. The next time, said one of their leaders, husky, brash Flowers Cockcroft, "We'll clean out every Negro section in south Lake County...
...summary: HARVARD. LYNN. Chadwick, g. g., Sharples Barron, r.f.b. l.f.b., MacEwen Hallowell, l.f.b. l.f.b., Kennedy Richard, r.h.b. r.h.b., Thompson Swan, c.h.b. c.h.b., Haddon Morriss, l.h.b. l.h.b., Cockcroft Needham, r.o.f. r.o.f., Kilhert Seamans, r.i.f. r.i.f., Wilson Winston, c.f. c.f., Paton Carnochan, l.i.f. l.i.f., Ross Byng, l.o.f. l.o.f., Spooner