Word: nobelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Nobelman Lawrence announced that California scientists had found evidence at last. When their highspeed neutrons hit the wall of an ionization chamber, protons bounced back. These were the neutrons themselves, said Lawrence, turned into protons. When a neutron came close to a proton, the proton's electric charge oscillated rapidly between the two. When the neutron passed on, it sometimes carried the charge with it, and was thus a proton...
Practical consequences are not yet in sight, for the wave mechanicians work in a never-never land far beyond the frontier of practical technology. But Nobelman Rabi compared Lamb & Retherford's criticism of the Dirac theory with Einstein's modification of Newton's laws of motion. It took 40 years for Einstein's relativity to grow into the atom bomb...
...unsure were the physicists who described at Princeton the gigantic and complex machines which are being designed and built as tools for atomic research. Nobelman Ernest 0. Lawrence, developer of the cyclotron, was sure that this and other "accelerators" would soon yield flying particles with energies up to one billion volts. (Present top: 100,000,000.) What the particles themselves are and how they behave, neither Lawrence nor anyone else could describe with certainty...
General Electric's tough-minded,soft-spoken Nobelman, Dr. Irving Langmuir, said last week that Russia might win an atomic race if the world let itself...
...delegation, headed by Harvard's Astronomer Harlow Shapley and General Electric's Nobelman Irving Langmuir, found much of Russia's scientific equipment destroyed by war. Though the Russians and the visiting scientists politely avoided prying into each other's war research, it was obvious that the Russians had been in no position to match the vast U.S. work on the atomic bomb. Yet Physicist Langmuir thought that in less than ten years the U.S.S.R. would certainly be able to carry out a "Manhattan Project...