Word: fermi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most assiduous imitator of the Curie-Joliots is Professor Enrico Fermi, 32, Italian physicist. Using neutrons instead of alpha particles or deutons, he has produced radioactive forms of two dozen elements from fluorine to barium...
...elements Professor Fermi played with last spring was uranium. Uranium, discovered in 1789, is the mother stuff of radium, and the heaviest element on earth (twice as heavy as tin). Astronomers believe that elements heavier than uranium must exist in the interior of the sun. Geologists admit that perhaps near the core of the earth may be something heavier than uranium. But there certainly has been none anywhere near the earth's surface where man can lay his hands on it-until possibly last week...