Word: ladenburg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balmy spring night last week two men were alone in a big brick building on the Princeton University campus. Physics Professor Rudolf Walter Ladenburg, 53, and Research Associate Cletus Clinton Van Voorhis, 50, were so interested in their atom-smashing experiments that they had come back to the physics laboratory to work after dinner. For bullets they used neutrons. The neutrons were knocked out of beryllium by alpha particles from radium. The beryllium and 200 milligrams of radium sulphate, worth $4,000, were in a metal tube. One of the scientists started to solder a loose cap on the tube...
...knew better than Ladenburg and Van Voorhis that radium poisoning rots flesh & bone, finally kills. Terrified they ripped off their clothes, wiped their skins with wet cotton. To find specks they could not see, they used an electrical radium detector of the sort that sets up a staccato clicking in the presence of radioactive emanations (TIME...
Next day the room was roped off and four assistants went over everything with radium counters, recovered most of the burst tube's contents. Meanwhile the two victims took repeated blood tests. Said Chairman Joseph Raycroft of the Health Department: "We cannot state now just what danger Professor Ladenburg and Mr. Van Voorhis...
...against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad announced it was unable to cope j with the situation, asked its bankers, DilIon, Read & Co. and Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., to help work out another new plan, i avert receivership. Chief immediate problem is the maturity of some $11,000,000 ; bonds during 1931. Seaboard Air Line is grouped with Wabash in the I. C. C. plan, but Wabash has shown no desire to acquire the unfortunate road. Southerners are familiar with Seaboard...