Thorium was also for some years incorporated into a popular German toothpaste, Doramad. Auer, the company that made German gas mantles, also made the toothpaste.
There was very little doubt in my mind that the world was headed for grief.
Of all celebrated beings, the only one whom fame has not corrupted.
He chose not to work through the limited official channels that the Army and the OSRD had devised to constrict the flow of information. I wanted to let Oppenheimer know what we were doing. Someone in...
Within twenty-four hours of Franklin Roosevelt’s death two men told Harry Truman about the atomic bomb.
Trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.
Collected minerals and at ten years of age wrote poems but still played with blocks.
Consistent with Martin Klaproth’s inspiration in 1789 to link his discovery of a new element with the recent discovery of the planet Uranus and with McMillan’s suggestion to extend the scheme to Neptu...
British experimenters used Bank of England sealing wax to make glass tubes airtight.
Few of the fathers of physicists were businessmen.
Today Hedy’s invention serves millions through GPS, Galileo, and GLONASS satellites, Bluetooth, cell-phone, and digital wireless systems. (illustration credit i1.23)
Rutherford’s and Soddy’s discussions of radioactive change therefore inspired the science fiction novel that eventually started Leo Szilard thinking about chain reactions and atomic bombs.
Man is not satisfied with a happy idyllic life: he has the need to fight and to encounter danger.
Einstein had judged it too large and moved into a small secretarial annex nearby.
Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.
When fission was discovered, within perhaps a week there was on the blackboard in Robert Oppenheimer’s office a drawing—a very bad, an execrable drawing—of a bomb.
The subtle experimenter lost his subtlety when he shifted from doing science to proselytizing for God. Rigor slipped to Chautauqua logic and he perpetrated such howlers as the notion that Heisenberg’s...
Bohr, for his part, supple pragmatist and democrat that he was, never an absolutist, heard once too often about Einstein’s personal insight into the gambling habits of the Deity. He scolded his distin...
The highest form of musicality in the sphere of thought.
Rent a gram of radium for a minimum of three months for $125 a month.