Word: electronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Physicists at Berkeley, said Thornton, had shot high energy (100,000,000 electron-volt) neutrons and protons through carbon and other elements. Knowing the size and number of the nuclei, they could calculate how many particles should pass through the material without hitting any nuclei. More came through than the calculations had allowed for, and with hardly any loss of energy-indicating that the nuclei are not nearly so solid as supposed. It was enough to make nonscientists nervous...
Viruses, said Stanley, are too small to be seen with ordinary microscopes; but electron microscopes show them plainly. The tobacco mosaic virus, for instance, is a slender rod. The rods affect one another at a distance as if they were tiny bar-magnets. This "long-range force," still unexplained, may prove the key to many deep life mysteries...
Reinhold Rudenberg, Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering, yesterday recovered patent rights to his electron microscope invention seized by the Allen Property Custodian when he fled to this country from Nazi persecution...
...others: the charge of the electron (1.591 x 10 -20 e.m.u.), and the speed of light in a vacuum (186.285 miles per second...
Theoretical consequences might be enormous. The hydrogen atom, with its single proton and single electron, is the simplest atomic structure. It is therefore the starting point for investigation of the fundamental mysteries of matter. The atoms of other elements are more complicated, but presumably their constituent particles follow the same basic laws...