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This discovery has already brought into play new words, familiar in other fields of science but not so in atomic physics. The splitting of the uranium nucleus is described as a "fission," which, in biology, means division of an organism into two or more parts. The big nucleus has been compared to a "droplet." When a neutron of the right energy strikes it, the new energy is shared by all the components of the nucleus so that the "surface tension" fails to hold it together. Therefore it splits...
...Hahn calls himself a radiologist and his previous record includes discovery of several radioactive elements. Some years ago he lectured at Cornell, is remembered there as an "outstanding scientist"-also as a good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom...
Since the first explosion reverberated through the world's laboratories, the fission of thorium, as well as uranium, has been demonstrated. Atom-wranglers at Columbia University have shown that, under various conditions, the fission of uranium yields krypton, strontium, iodine, xenon, tellurium as disintegration products. The flood of reports made it appear that atomic physicists are off on the biggest big-game hunt since the discovery of artificial radioactivity was announced...
Stockholders willing, a corporate fission will occur this autumn in a notable aviation name. Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced plans last week to divorce its engine and aircraft units from its aerial camera and survey business. The latter will be carried on by the present company. Shares in a new concern to be known as Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. will be distributed share-for-share to stockholders in Fairchild Aviation...
...Communist Party of the U. S. is a minuscule organization of earnest, disadvantaged and voluble souls who dislike the current economic system and are passionately convinced that they know the one right way to better it. After 17 years of almost simultaneous growth and fission, the Party now comprises some 51,000 members, being far outstripped in strength of numbers by such organizations as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People or the Camp Fire Girls. Hence the disproportionate amount of public attention which the Party commands can be reasonably interpreted only as a testimonial to the potency...