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Physicists probing within the atom toward the ultimate constitution of matter already had their hands full with positive and negative electrons, neutrons (uncharged particles), protons (nuclei of hydrogen atoms), deuterons (nuclei of doubleweight hydrogen), tritons (nuclei of tripleweight hydrogen), alpha particles (nuclei of helium), and the theoretical but necessary neutrino (little neutron...
...this reminded connoisseurs of scientific nomenclature of a controversy which willful Lord Rutherford stirred up some time ago after Columbia University's Harold Clayton Urey had christened doubleweight. hydrogen "deuterium." Dr. Urey had discovered doubleweight hydrogen and it seemed that he had a right to name it. The nucleus was called the "deuton." Dr. Rutherford did not like these names, especially "deuton," which he declared was likely to be confused by Englishmen with "neutron," particularly if the speaker had a cold. Lord Rutherford was for calling the atom "diplogen" and its nucleus the "diplon," and a number of British...
Overgrown Atoms. Headliner of the convention was a round-faced, gum-chewing professor of Columbia University, Harold Clayton Urey, who won a Nobel Prize in 1934 for his spectrographic identification of deuterium, the doubleweight hydrogen atom which in combination with oxygen makes heavy water...
Every molecule of pure "heavy water" contains hydrogen of the doubleweight kind identified by Columbia's Harold Clayton Urey in 1931. Long before Dr. Urey was awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery (TIME, Nov. 26), experimenters were finding that heavy water did strange things to small animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy...
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