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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Role of the Meson. Last week 500 ultra-physicists gathered in Manhattan at a meeting of the American Physical Society to discuss this unfinished business. The meson (pronounced mees-on) was the star of the convention. Most physicists agreed that this subatomic particle, which weighs 200 times as much as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ultra-Nucleonics | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

The new electron microscope leads scientists a long way downward into the realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silver Seaweed | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

When a film is developed, silver atoms clump together in tiny islands. It used to be assumed that these clumps were a grainy, cokelike mass. It was just an assumption, because no ordinary microscope could penetrate the clumps. In the Eastman laboratories, Researcher C. E. Hall made electron pictures magnifying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silver Seaweed | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

When a newsman asked him for the significance of the discovery, Dr. Mees cracked back: "What is the significance of a newborn baby?" This riposte was not original with him.* Plausible assumption: that better knowledge of the grainy structure of films will sooner or later lead to better pictures, clearer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Silver Seaweed | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Sweethearts. Everybody's marraine in this war as in the last is venerable, foghorn-voiced Mistinguett, 64, triumphant sexy grandma of the Folies Bergère and Casino de Paris. Her famed extremities are still as shapely as they were generations ago (see cut, p. 25). Nobody looks at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Women At Work | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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