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Speaking at the two groups' annual joint luncheon in the Harkness Quadrangle, Taylor said that "somewhere on every campus half way between the chapel and cyclotron there must be a laboratory of the humanities in which, as in the college library, are preserved the immutable judgments of the past and of the present...
...perhaps not surprising to see some present-day pessimists accused as traitors or, at best, as imbeciles. One consequence may well be a trend towards blind sponsorship of space-trips and death ray machines on the part of job-conscious government scientists. Harold P. Furth '51 Research Assistant, Cyclotron Laboratory
...group of scientists at the University of California (Albert Ghiorso, G. Bernard Rossi, Bernard G. Harvey and Stanley G. Thompson) have created Element 99, the heaviest so far. They did it by bombarding Uranium 238 (Element 92) with a beam of positively charged nitrogen atoms from a 60-inch cyclotron. The nitrogen atoms contained seven protons and seven neutrons, and when they collided with U-238, all except five of the neutrons joined its nucleus. The seven added protons raised the atomic number to 99, and the added neutrons and protons together raised its atomic weight...
Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Featuring a demonstration of atom-smashing in a cyclotron...
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