Word: tuve
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Merle Tuve, physicist and director of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, summed up: "The broad problem we are examining is whether our society is now so intensively organized that the individual is becoming helpless and ineffective...
...trouble, said the educators, was that the War Assets Administration put all its books in standard size packing cases. If 335 copies of Shoop & Tuve's Mechanical Engineering Practice filled a crate, and a school wanted only 100 it had to take all 335 or none. Result: most schools were taking none...
Uranium Attack. The Department of Terrestrial Magnetism has a powerfully equipped atom-smashing laboratory, headed by Dr. Merle Anthony Tuve. Early this year, when two Germans announced disintegration of the heavy uranium atom with release of 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy (most powerful man-made atomic explosion), Dr. Tuve and co-workers promptly confirmed the discovery, added the find that the uranium fragments become radioactive, continuing to emit particles for a few seconds after the impacts have stopped...