Word: radium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EARLY descriptions of radioactive fallout's effect on future generations were subject to exaggeration. Now, an M.I.T. study shows that the human capacity to absorb radium may exceed the previous medical estimates by as much as 25 times. For the sobering story, see MEDICINE, Radium Hangovers...
...research that led to the award began in 1934, when Cherenkov. then 30, noticed a bluish glow where gamma rays from radium were striking through water in a flask. The glow was exceedingly faint, and a less curious man might have put it aside as ordinary fluorescence, which is given off by many materials when struck by gamma rays. But Cherenkov's mysterious light proved to be strongly polarized, had a continuous (rainbow-like) spectrum, and was given off predominantly in the direction of the gamma rays...
...Radium-Treated Patients University research center looking for persons who received radium injections or who drank radium solutions, such as "Radithor," before 1935. Write Z7516- Advt...
...spectacular Rube Goldbergish kit: a kitchen chair, clothes tree, 4-in. electromagnet, pie-sized vacuum chamber made of glass, brass and sealing wax, all put together for $25. When he hooked this odd gizmo up to an ordinary electric socket, atoms whirled around faster than those emitted by radium...
Died. Frederic Joliot-Curie, 58, atomic physicist, winner of a Nobel Prize in 1935, member of the French Communist Party's Central Committee, winner of a Stalin Peace Prize in 1950; following surgery for an internal hemorrhage; in Paris. Marrying Irene Curie, daughter of Radium Discoverers Pierre and Marie Curie, Frederic Joliot added their name to his own. With his physicist wife, who died of leukemia in 1956, he won the Nobel for discovering that radioactivity could be produced in the laboratory in elements which were not naturally radioactive. This first opened the possibility of widespread use of radioactivity...