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Atomic experts bombarded uranium with atomic particles from the cyclotron and produced neptunium, a new "synthetic" element with 93 electrons. Next, Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg and co-workers discovered plutonium (No. 94), and, four years later, at the University of Chicago, americium (No. 95) and curium (No. 96). Last week tall, gaunt, 37-year-old Chemist Seaborg and his associates were in the news again. By bombarding americium with alpha particles, they had produced another new element, with 97 electrons...
...hydrogen nuclei) and alpha particles (helium nuclei)-with a force of 200 million to 400 million electron volts, the cyclotron has almost ten times the power of the most potent cyclotron previously known (also at Cal).* At an American Physical Society meeting at Stanford last week, Physicists Glenn T. Seaborg and Isadore Perlman made the first report on what they and their California teammates, who work under the sponsorship of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, had accomplished...
...Conant; Dr. Lee A. DuBridge, president of the California Institute of Technology; Nobel Prize Physicists Enrico Fermi (University of Chicago) and I. I. Rabi (Columbia University); ex-Los Alamos Director J. R. Oppenheimer (University of California); Hartley Rowe, chief engineer of the United Fruit Co. ; Chemistry Professor Glenn T. Seaborg (University of California), Cyril Stanley Smith, director of the University of Chicago's Institute of Metals; Hood Worthington, chemical engineer for E. I. Du Pont de Nemours...
...this point, serious minds took charge again. Last fortnight, at the convention of the American Chemical Society in Atlantic City, Chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, chief human begetter of the two elements, officially named Element 95 "americium" (after the two Americas) and Element 96 "curium" (after the two Curies...
Medicine, too, said Seaborg, can use the magic pile, both for studying diseases and for curing them. Radioactive iodine, for instance, follows ordinary iodine through the human body. Its rate of accumulation in the thyroid gland (shown by holding a radiation counter near the throat) diagnoses accurately the condition of the gland in goiter and related diseases (see MEDICINE...