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...engineering were fully accredited on the college level, awarding bachelor's degrees in civil, electrical, mechanical and chemical engineering and certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor Michael Pupin. Moreover, Cooper Union had served as inspiration for a number of privately endowed technical schools (e.g., Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology) across the country...
Actually, as his U.S. colleagues were well aware, Scientist Yukawa was entitled to some congratulations himself. Ten years earlier, when he was a 28-year-old lecturer at Japan's Osaka University, Yukawa had taken the next step beyond the theory of nuclear fission with his brilliantly propounded theory of the meson. It had taken him more than a year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later...
...Prayer to Allah. Different answers came from every streetcorner and every newspaper in all the world's cities. Some people predicted inevitable peace. In Germany's new capital city of Bonn, Professor Otto Hahn, one of the discoverers of nuclear fission, who won a Nobel prize in chemistry in 1944, argued agreeably: "If both the United States and Russia have it, there will...
Radioactive Hornets. Brookhaven scientists discovered that ordinary hornets accumulate barium in their bodies. Since radioactive barium is one of the products of uranium fission, they intend to place hornets at key positions around Brookhaven's nuclear reactor. If the hornets become radioactive, the scientists will know that fission products are getting loose...
...their opinion, was informed that the invention was dangerous and impractical. A year later, the Soviet press asserted, the plate was produced by a vulture named Brown, in Sheffield, England. The list of Russian firsts which pulls Pyatov up from obscurity starts with the adding machine, anesthesia, Antarctica, atomic fission, runs on to the wedge breechblock and the wool-combing machine...