Word: fissioning
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...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...
...scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems to think that he is sane. And then, alas, there...
...works." Leonard got hold of the now famous Smyth report, sat up until 4 a.m. digesting it and wrote his story, which, checked by an atomic physicist, turned out to be correct in every detail. The Smyth report later proved to be the real news of atomic fission...