Word: zinn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near Chicago. Under the supervision of hardheaded, 41-year-old Director Walter Zinn, Argonne will choose between three different approaches to a power reactor. Construction on one of them will be started early next year...
Both steps meant that the power program was back on the tracks at last. But the delay had been costly. Said Argonne's Director Zinn: "I don't know how far away power is. The only way to find out these things is by work. If you don't work on it, it gets even farther away...
...ordered Fermi a few minutes later. Physicist Walter H. Zinn pulled out the Zip rod and tied it carefully. The counters clicked still faster. The graph pen moved up again...
...additional $40 million of the Army's Manhattan District (nuclear) funds are earmarked for research. By last week the District was well along in arrangements for a chain of regional laboratories across the nation. Biggest: the Argonne Laboratory near Chicago, headed by 39-year-old Physicist Walter Henry Zinn. The University of Chicago, the Mayo Clinic and 22 other Midwest institutions will help run Argonne via an advisory board, will use it as a center for research in nuclear physics, biochemistry and other fields in which neutrons may be useful. Other laboratories in the chain: the Radiation Laboratory...
This discovery has some immediate applications. Blond, bushy-browed Walter H. Zinn, the discoverer, who looks like a happy Mephistopheles, thinks that neutrons can probably be used like X rays to examine the structure of molecules. Neutrons are light enough to be scattered by hydrogen atoms, which X rays do not detect; hence they can be used to study organic molecules, such as viruses, which mark the difference between living and inanimate matter...