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...nuclei of the nitrogen 15 and californium 249 atoms met, they fused into a single nucleus containing a total of 260 neutrons and protons (four neutrons were shed in the process). Of these particles, 105 were protons, the positively charged particles that determine the atomic number of the element. Since there were 105 protons, the nucleus of the 105th element had been created...
...Powers of Ten, one such idea film that Eames presented in 1968 to ameeting of America's top physicists, sketches a linear zoom to the farthest known point in the galaxies down to the nucleus of a carbon atom. What makes the film almost surreal at times is the starting point- the wrist of a man lying on Miami Beach- and the narrator, a serious female voice. Yet, whether physicist or child, one gets a feeling for the dimensions of time and space...
...nucleus of about 50 striking workers has established a headquarters in the Phillip Brooks House (PBH) in an effort to organize an all-University strike...
...organizations-The Faculty Anti-War Group and the Harvard Moratorium Committee-form the nucleus of Peace Action Strike. According to Everett I. Mendelsohn, professor of the History of Science and a member of the group's steering committee, its members believe current strike action should not focus on the University, but rather on Congress and on the election of anti-war candidates this fall...
...forces and to establish his authority by sheer organization. "Our fighting method is organization," Lenin proclaimed. "We must organize everything." When he had attained power, he evolved a network of interlocking organizations-trade unions, youth groups, administrative hierarchies, control commissions, agitation and propaganda centers-with the party as its nucleus. Before anyone else in history, he recognized the limitless potential of political and social engineering to reach into every aspect of a people's life and transform it. The durability and power of the Soviet regime testify to Lenin's essential genius as the theoretician of political organization...