Word: fissioned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lesser powers are concentrating on research rather than plutonium production-and they have some of the world's most brilliant atomic scientists. Niels Bohr, who back in 1939 pointed out theoretically that it was the rare U-235 which underwent fission when bombarded by slow neutrons, heads the Danish program. Two other Nobel Prizewinners, Manne Siegbahn and Theodor Svedberg, lead the work at Sweden's new laboratories. The Swiss Federal Council has voted over $4,000,000 for atomic research...
Barnes's plan is to have his foreign Tribmen become "specialists in ideas rather than areas." Once his stable of world-trotting pundits is trained (one in diplomacy, others in business, labor, nuclear fission, etc.), he expects to move them as stories break. The Trib would rely on wire services for the first 24 hours of an important story, then close in with an expert who would stay with it as long as it made news...
...pointed out that they could not give orders to Travancore's Maharaja, an independent ruler. The handsome, enlightened, 34-year-old Maharaja, who in 1937 established a university for technological research, has now said that he wants to build thorium refining plants, and perhaps even experiment with nuclear fission, in Travancore. That was a reminder that the great powers had no permanent monopoly on the atom...
...game, and should the banner of Green be unfurled Fair Harvard's buildings will not collapse. 'Tis no nuclear fission, no Hiroshima. Nay, no Shakesperian tragedy. The sun will shine as brightly Sunday--Lest perchance should rain come down like Niobe's tears...
Life at Sukhum. When the Reds punched into Berlin, they threw a cordon of troops around the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, whence the news of uranium fission had first startled the scientific world in 1939. They went down into the cellar, dismantled the big cyclotron, packed it carefully off to Stalinland. Among the men they carried off was Baron Manfred von Ardenne, 39, a brilliant physicist...