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Remote Sensing Remote Sensing
REMOTE SENSING CONCEPT Scientists of many disciplines are accustomed to studying data that cannot be observed through direct contact. Physicists and chemists, for instance, know a great deal about the structure of the atom, even though even the most high-powered microscope... Read more
William Higgins William Higgins
William Higgins b. 1762 or 1763, d. 1825, Irish chemist. After study at Oxford he became supervisor of the Royal Dublin Society's mineralogical collection and in 1800 the Society's professor of chemistry. He worked on the chemistry of bleaching and the detection of adulterants in commercial... Read more
Atoms Atoms
ATOMS CONCEPT Our world is made up of atoms, yet the atomic model of the universe is nonetheless considered a "theory." When scientists know beyond all reasonable doubt that a particular principle is the case, then it is dubbed a law. Laws address the fact that certain things happen, as well as how... Read more
Niels Henrik David Bohr Niels Henrik David Bohr
Niels Henrik David Bohr , 1885-1962, Danish physicist, one of the foremost scientists of modern physics. He studied at the Univ. of Copenhagen (Ph.D. 1911) and carried on research on the structure of the atom at Cambridge under Sir James J. Thomson and at Manchester under Lord Ernest Rutherford.... Read more
Burton Richter Burton Richter
Burton Richter , 1931-, American physicist, b. New York City, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1956. A professor at Stanford Univ., Richter built a particle accelerator (Stanford Positron-Electron Asymmetric Ring) with the help of David Ritson and the support of the U.S. Atomic Energy... Read more
Isotopes Isotopes
ISOTOPES CONCEPT Isotopes are atoms of the same element that have different masses due to differences in the number of neutrons they contain. Many isotopes are stable, meaning that they are not subject to radioactive decay, but many more are radioactive. The latter, also... Read more
ununquadium ununquadium
ununquadium , artificially produced radioactive chemical element ; symbol Uuq; at. no. 114; mass number of most stable isotope 289; m.p., b.p., sp. gr., and valence unknown. Situated in Group 14 of the periodic table , it is expected to have properties similar to those of lead and tin . ... Read more
nuclear disarmament nuclear disarmament
nuclear disarmament the reduction and limitation of the various nuclear weapons in the military forces of the world's nations. The atomic bombs dropped (1945) on Japan by the United States in World War II demonstrated the overwhelming destructive potential of nuclear weapons and the threat to... Read more
Sir Joseph Rotblat Sir Joseph Rotblat
Sir Joseph Rotblat 1908-2005, British physicist and anti-nuclear weapons activist, b. Warsaw, Poland; grad. Free Univ. of Poland (M.A., 1932), Univ. of Warsaw (Ph.D., 1938), Univ. of Liverpool (Ph.D., 1950). He went to Liverpool on a research fellowship in 1939 and five years later traveled to New... Read more
Atomic Energy Atomic Energy
ATOMIC ENERGY The Soviet Union had an extensive atomic energy program. The program included the use of isotopes as tracers for agricultural research and as ionizing sources for food irradiation, extensive applications in medicine, so-called peaceful nuclear explosions, and an ambitious effort to... Read more

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Kenneth Bainbridge; physicist directed first A-bomb test; at 91
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, director of the first atomic bomb test at...Kistiakowsky, Mr. Bainbridge devised a pump...238. When the scientists reported their...exploded the first atomic bomb, a plutonium...fireball, Mr. ...
HEALING.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH) ...portrayal of Chicken George in the miniseries ''Roots.'' Deaths Kenneth Tompkins Bainbridge, a scientist who accurately measured atomic weights and director of the first atomic bomb test at Alamagordo, N.M., died Sunday. He was 91. ...
NUCLEAR DIS-ARIA-MENT.(Pasatiempo)
Newspaper article from: The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM) ...Making of "Doctor Atomic," art imitates...1945, Trinity atomic test at White Sands...of bitches. -- Kenneth Bainbridge, Trinity test...birthplace of the atomic bomb. "I was...doubts among the scientists assembled in ...
ANNIVERSARY AT GROUND ZERO PILGRIMS PAY VISIT TO PRIMAL SCENE OF NUCLEAR AGE
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA) ...Ground zero of the atomic age is marked by...to meter." The atomic bomb imposed a...single instant, scientists had released energy...a Hindu text. Scientist Isidor Rabi, who...among the assembled scientists. Each took a swig...Trinity ...
TRINITY: A BOMB IS TESTED
Newspaper article from: The Columbian (Vancouver, WA) ...world's first atomic explosion had been...correctly that two atomic bombs would stun...s director, Kenneth Bainbridge, as the fire from...months, the leading scientists of the Free World...would work. As the scientists ...

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