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...tough, massive nucleus with one or more electrons spinning around it. For long years physicists assumed that an outside electron never fell into its own nucleus. At Ohio State University, Dr. Marion Llewellyn Pool bombarded silver with various projectiles, made it artificially radioactive. Thirty-five times more gamma rays than electrons spurted out of the radioactive silver. The only way Dr. Pool could explain this abnormally high ratio was by assuming that the nucleus had captured one of its own outside electrons...
TIME to Kappa Kappa Gamma...
Would the all-inclusive, ever-present TIME care to know that it was chosen to represent current history in the cornerstone of a women's fraternity house? The building is the new home of Gamma Psi chapter of Kappa Kappa Gamma, at the fast-expanding University of Maryland, and the issue deposited was, symbolically, the one reporting the ''rebirth" of nearby St. John's College, Annapolis [TIME, July 19], . . . MARY INGERSOLL JENKINS President...
Kappa Kappa Gamma Building Corp. Gamma Psi Chapter Hyattsville...
...ovens, reaction vats, filter presses and decanters, working down to delicately controlled processes in vessels hardly larger than thimbles. When the concentration of radium is as high as 1%, trained chemists take over the job, wearing protective gloves and clothing and working intermittently to avoid injury from the potent gamma, beta and alpha rays. The final product is not pure radium but 90 to 94% pure radium bromide...