Word: scientistic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scientist had a skull strikingly like that of the Aurignacian man-a cave man of the late...
...Invisible Woman (Universal) gets off to a bounding start with an idea wonderfully suited to the leering talents of John Barrymore: he is a scampish scientist with a contraption for making people invisible. However, the story rapidly runs out of breath, thereafter staggers through a plodding plot about a fatuous young moneybags (John Howard) who is inexplicably attracted to the unseen subject of the Barrymorian experiments (Virginia Bruce). Added but unnecessary wrinkles are furnished by eyebrowed Oscar Homolka, a gangster who steals Barrymore's machine for nefarious purposes...
...kind of uranium for neutron-splitting or "fission" is the isotope called U-235.- This kind is scarce and extremely difficult to separate from the common isotope, 11-238. So far, not enough U-235 has been isolated to put in a fruit fly's eye. A Swedish scientist was beginning to speed up the process with gadgets called thermal diffusion tubes when the war stopped him. Another line of attack is with centrifuges - whirling machines which work like cream separators...
...member of the Rockefeller Institute, first woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her studies in tuberculosis. Dr. Simon Flexner, former head of the Rockefeller Institute once called her "the greatest living woman scientist and one of the foremost scientists of all time...
Like Blackout, Night Train has a spy-story pattern pasted against a war background. It begins in Czecho-Slovakia, moves to England, hurries back to Germany, then to Switzerland during a hectic scramble for the possession of a Czech scientist (James Harcourt) with secret plans in his head for a new type of steel plate. His trim, saucy daughter (Margaret Lockwood) strings along, meets with handsome British and German intelligence officers (Rex Harrison and Paul von Hern-reid), scrambles matters by failing to recognize for some time Mr. Right...