Word: schonland
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Controlled nuclear fusion may be farther away than had been hoped. Last week Dr. B.FJ. Schonland, director of Britain's Atomic Energy Research Establishment, announced that the neutrons emitted from the famous ZETA fusion apparatus (TIME, Feb. 3) did not come from fusion of heavy hydrogen atoms at uniform high temperature. As the U.S.'s Atomic Energy Commission had indicated, they were apparently a result of collisions of high-velocity atoms with low-velocity ones. Experts in fusion techniques do not class this action as real thermonuclear fusion...
Africa's grave race problem will be resolved within the next decade, Basil F. Schonland, Chancellor of Rhodes University, said yesterday...
...Schonland and his wife, shown above, are visiting the United States on a Carnegie Corporation grant to observe U.S. industrial and educational trends, particularly in his own field of geophysics...
...used a special fast camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader...
...positively charged Earth; the main stroke traces the leader's path in the opposite direction. New photographs with a special speed camera show the leader stroke varying in length from 1.6 to 4.7 miles, in speed from 810 to 19,000 miles per second.-Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, University of Capetown...
| 1 |