Word: hydrogenating
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...headlined the Washington Post-and so it was when Dr. Donald Glaser, 34, this year's Nobel laureate in physics, married Ruth Louise ("Bonnie") Thompson, 23, a University of California math major. First thrown together in a U.C. radiation lab, where he was testing his liquid hydrogen bubble chamber and she was a part-time programmer for a computer, the Glasers winged off last week toward Stockholm and a honeymoon helped along with $43,627 in Nobel money...
Died. Max Pruss, 69, captain of the airships Graf Zeppelin and Hindenburg, who never fully recovered from burns suffered as he leaped from the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg when it exploded in Lakehurst, N.J. in 1937 (killing 36 people), but who steadfastly argued to the end that helium-filled dirigibles were the cheapest, safest and most comfortable form of air travel; of pneumonia; in Frankfort, West Germany...
...Glaser's bubble chambers were working fine. Physicists, it now appeared, had been waiting for just such a piece of apparatus. Every serious physics laboratory now has at least one bubble chamber. The biggest one, at Berkeley, is 72 inches long, filled with liquid hydrogen, and cost...
...that it generates, is extraordinarily "stable." That is, its frequency (of approximately 1,420,405,000 cycles per second) is expected to vary less than that of any other kind of radiation. Like all regular wave motion, it can be used to keep time. The Harvard physicists hope their hydrogen clock will measure small intervals of time with 100,000 times the accuracy that is presently possible...
Personal timekeepers (trade doubletalk for watches) do not use anything as fancy as hydrogen atoms. Since the 17th century they have depended on a delicate hairspring that keeps a balance wheel turning backward and forward at a regular rate. But last week Bulova Watch...