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...voltage. In Professor Van de Graaff's machine moving paper belts brush static electricity upon huge metal balls. A modification, for which he already has a 1,000,000-volt model, will consist of a single metal ball and a metal-&-porcelain chain electron "conveyor," the whole contained in a vast steel vacuum tank. Expected voltage...
Visible Atoms. Academy members had the privilege of beholding, projected on a screen, photographs of three kinds of atoms. The helium atom appeared as a vague blob of electricity. In the neon atom the inner & outer groups of orbital electrons were clearly distinguishable. In the argon atom the inner and middle electron groups showed as one blurred ring, but separate from the outer group. The images were composite photographs of billions of atoms resolved into single pictures by photographing a revolving plate the shape of which was determined by x-ray diffraction. Though indirect, complex and laborious, the method...
Subatomic investigators find neutrons elusive little things to deal with. Unlike electrons, protons and positrons, they have no electric charge. Slippery as wrestlers covered with oil they slide through the electric fields of atoms, are not deflected until they collide squarely with a nucleus. Nevertheless their mass (about 1,800 times that of an electron) has been established within fairly precise limits. And last week three Columbia physicists announced the size of the neutron as slightly less than .0000000000001 (one ten-trillionth) of an inch...
...captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators is a devoted, captainless couple: Irene Curie-Joliot and Jean Frédéric Joliot, daughter and son-in-law of Marie Curie...
...Physics and director of this research, when asked to comment on the possibilities of the work. "Since the photon leaves no track, it loses none of its energy in passing through the air. It there fore has much more energy with which to disintegrate the nuclei than the electron. As a result of this fact, it has a high efficiency in bombarding nuclei. It remains therefore only to discover the practical application of this fact...