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...England, Lord Rutherford bounced deutons (deuterium nuclei) together, got protons and something of mass three which he thought was either an unknown form of helium or triple-weight hydrogen. Cautious Lord Rutherford took his time ascertaining that the new particles were both helium and tritium. Meantime Dr. Merle Antony Tuve and his associates at the Carnegie Institution of Washington had identified tritium particles by measuring their mass as indicated by the curvature of their paths in a powerful magnetic field. The existence of tritium was also demonstrated at Princeton. But tritium is scarce. Physicists estimate its proportion in ordinary water...
...unexpected isotope of helium or the expected third isotope of hydrogen. To the chemists in St. Petersburg last week Dr. Ferdinand Graft Brickwedde of the U. S. Bureau of Standards, co-discoverer of deuterium, revealed that mass-three hydrogen had indisputably been identified by Dr. M. A. Tuve, L. R. Hafstad and Odd Dahl of Washington's Carnegie Institution...
...tawdry Massachusetts Avenue to the red buildings of Harvard University, to whose professor emeritus of physics, Dr. Theodore Lyman, they gave the Frederick Ives Medal, and where they heard learned discourse. Dr. Albert Wallace Hull of General Electric described two meticulous counters:1) the device of Dr. Merle Anthony Tuve of the Carnegie Institution (TIME, Feb. 8), which measures a current of one electron per second, smallest current measured so far; 2) the device (including thyratron tubes) of Dr. Wynn Williams of Cambridge University, England, which counts alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) as they explode from radium...
Last week three young Carnegie Institution men, Drs. Merle Anthony Tuve, Lawrence R. Hafstad and Odd Dahl, through the Physical Review, offered atom crackers a new, manageable howitzer. (They had first mentioned that piece of laboratory ordinance when the Association for the Advancement of Science met in Pasadena last June. Although the scientists could see little of the machine's effect, they nonetheless gave a $1,000 prize to the ingenious young men.) Their machine consists essentially of a tesla coil under oil and a cascading cathode tube. The coil builds up an electrical potential...
...helium nucleus of four protons is clumsy chain-shot for atomic bombardment. Drs. Tuve, Hafstad & Dahl now surpass radium by shooting single protons from their gun. By means of a cloud chamber they are now able to see and photograph the stream of protons from their machine. The effect looks like a stubby shaving brush with bristles 1.6 in. long. Each bristle is the path made by a proton only one 10,000th of null millionth of an inch in diameter...