Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Coordinated activity by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the new National Student Association to increase understanding of the implications of nuclear fission among American college students will begin within the next four months, according to a statement yesterday by Robert Smith 1G, NSA vice-president in charge of student international affairs...
...Fission & Fusion. Stockholders of Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. approved a plan to separate the company from its non-aviation interests, including a general manufacturing plant (stoves, frozen food storage units, etc.) in Nashville, Tenn., and part ownership of the ACF-Brill Motors Co. They will be incorporated in a new company, the Nashville Corp. By the deal, Convair's present parent, Victor Emanuel's Avco Manufacturing Corp., will get the controlling interest in the new company. Floyd Odium's Atlas Corp., Convair's second biggest stockholder, will take control of the aviation properties...
...Princeton Faculty and co-workers in the Institute impressed itself permanently, for scientific studies have completely dominated other facets of the Institute's activity which, in principle, were intended to share emphasis. Now both director Oppenheimer and leading-name Einstein are identified with the era's towering question: nuclear fission...
...lower, unicellular organisms which reproduce by fission (splitting) do not grow old in the ordinary sense; they are "reborn" whenever they divide...
...some unfinished business. Two young nuclear chemists, J. A. Marinsky and L. E. Glendenin of M.I.T., announced that while working at Oak Ridge, Tenn. they had synthesized and isolated Element 61, thus filling the last gap in the periodic table. They had extracted the missing element from the miscellaneous "fission products" formed by uranium atoms splitting in the Oak Ridge pile, and had also built it up by bombarding Element No. 60 (neodymium) with neutrons...