Word: nuclear
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...atomic bomb may save more lives than it ended. At the University of Chicago, where man's first nuclear chain reaction simmered underneath a grandstand, the Institute of Radiobiology and Biophysics last week began work. Professor Raymond E. Zirkle and assistants began applying the new atomic techniques to the study of living organisms and their ills...
...less like a Jap than like a man with a chronic hangover. In the tick of a time fuse he is being smuggled into Japan by the Korean underground as Sergeant Tomo Takashima, a returning war hero. He gets a job in a prison hospital, where he finds his nuclear scientist. By a streak of dazzling luck he also finds that the hospital's head nurse is his old girl, Abby (Barbara Hale...
...when Franklin Roosevelt appointed an informal "Advisory Committee on Uranium." It was a small project until the Nazi panzers roared over France. Then the world was struck by a terrible urgency. On Oct. 11, 1941, nearly two months before Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt wrote to Winston Churchill, offering British nuclear physicists a plan to work in the U.S. Churchill accepted. The U.S. and Britain were partners...
...prospect was difficult-but hopeful. Soberly summarizing nearly 100 reports which appeared during 1939, Dr. Louis A. Turner of Princeton concluded in the Reviews of Modern Physics: "For the first time it seems that there is some reasonable possibility of utilizing the enormous nuclear energy of heavy atoms. . . . The practical difficulties can undoubtedly be overcome in time...
Under the cover name of "The Metallurgical Laboratory," some of the most important discoveries were made at the University of Chicago directed by famed Dr. Arthur Holly Compton. His leading associate: Italian-born Dr. 'Enrico Fermi, whom many consider the world's foremost nuclear physicist. But there were also scores of other laboratories where the work went on: Columbia, University of California, Iowa State, industrial research centers...