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...Ernest Rutherford (later Lord Rutherford), accomplished the first disintegration of an atom's nucleus, the first transmutation of one element into another. Using for bullets the particles which fly naturally out of radium, Rutherford made oxygen out of nitrogen...
...William remembers that he watched his father and maternal grandfather send Australia's first wireless signals. With equal vividness he recalls the awe with which he regarded a piece of radium brought to Australia by Frederick Soddy, famed pioneer in the study of isotopes. When William was 18 his father returned to England to assume a professorship at Leeds. William graduated from Cambridge's Trinity College, started research work at Cavendish under Electron-Discoverer Thomson. About that time the elder Bragg showed his son some reports by Germany's Max von Laue. who was finding curious bright...
What Professor Perrin reported last week was the existence of ekarhenium in pitchblende ore, mother substance of radium. His collaborators used a powerful spectroscope, which splits up radiations from atoms into significant bands and lines. When the pitchblende was analyzed, four faint new lines appeared. Calculation showed that these lines must belong to ekarhenium...
Denied the use of human subjects, researchers make most of their cancer experiments on animals. One vicious type of animal cancer-"mouse sarcoma 180"-is highly resistant to such ordinary methods of treatment as radium and X-ray therapy. In very few cases does it dry up and disappear spontaneously. More important, mouse sarcoma 180 is a reliable subject on which to test the effectiveness of various treatments for human cancer...
...able, bald, self-critical physicist named George Eric MacDonnell Jauncey, who adorns the faculty of Washington University at St. Louis. Recently at a convention of scientists in Indianapolis, Dr. Jauncey described experiments which convinced him that the rest-masses of beta rays (fast electrons) shooting out of Radium E were variable (TIME, Jan. 17). He passed his electrons through a velocity selector, then estimated their masses by their behavior in electrical and magnetic fields. Since then Dr. Jauncey has bombarded the Physical Review with numerous communications backing up his announcement, has reproduced a film on which electrons apparently of varying...