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This tool has been in the hands of science only a short time. Only in 1934 did Irene Curie* and her husband, Frédéric Joliot, first make ordinary elements such as iron and iodine radioactive so that they give off sub-atomic particles and gamma rays just as radium does. The invention of the cyclotron, Ernest Orlando Lawrence's great atom-smashing machine in California, simplified the manufacture of such elements so that they are now commonplace in physical laboratories. And in Copenhagen in 1935 O. Chiewitz and G. Hevesy first used such artificial radioactive elements...
From Berlin came word that Nazis had permitted grave, shy Irène Joliot-Curie, Nobel Prizewinning daughter and image of the late, great Marie Curie, to return to the Paris Radium Institute, resume her experiments in artificial radioactivity...
...Miss Austen's novel, able Screen writer Jane Murfin's collaborator was Aldous Huxley, who went to California two years ago for eye treatments. He wrote a screen play for Garbo about Marie Curie which disappeared without a trace, supposedly because of family objections (Daughter Irene Joliot-Curie is thought to have feared that her father would be dwarfed by Garbo). Author Huxley, who has treated Hollywood with marked reserve, would like to write an original screen comedy. So far his only other product made in California is a grim, fantastic novel, After Many a Slimmer Dies...
...Curies. Once to fragile, indomitable Mother Marie and her husband Pierre, the late great discoverers of radium. Once to Mother Marie alone. Once to her spitting image and scientific successor Daughter Irène, the violently athletic co-discoverer (with Husband Jean Frédèric Joliot) of synthetic radioactivity (see cut, p. 29). But never to elegant Daughter Eve whose brilliant biography Madame Curie was a smash seller all over the U. S. (TIME, Dec. 13, 1937). Eve is no more a scientific titan than Mrs. Roosevelt. She is, however, just about as articulate, effective, and well-acquainted...
...physicists who accomplished the feat were Nobel Prizewinner Jean Frédéric Joliot, son-in-law of the late Marie Curie (see p. 24), L. Kowarski, H. von Halban Jr., E. Perrin. Details of the experiment were meagre: apparently they split uranium atoms in such a way that a lot of neutrons flew out-entirely too many to be accounted for as the result of the first fissions. Some of the neutrons must have been products of secondary and tertiary fissions. After that the reaction was too weak to continue. But it was obvious that the release...