Word: petrzhak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...important factor in weighing the feasibility of practical bombmaking. Theorists said that spontaneous fission ought to take place, but excellent experimental men in the U.S. were unable for a considerable time to prove that it did. The first to prove it (in 1940) were two young Russians, Flerov and Petrzhak, who did their work (to protect their experiment from the intrusion of cosmic rays) in the depths of Moscow's ornate subway...
...Russia awarded a Stalin Prize to Konstantin Petrzhak and Georgi Flerov for their three-year-old "discovery of the occurence of spontaneous disintegration of uranium." Wired A.P. from Moscow: "Foreigners here have noted an air of Russian confidence regarding atomic research." Said a high Washington source: "The Soviets have been working for years on the atom. There should not be any surprise if they discover its secrets...
| 1 |