The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 11, 1935, Page 7

1935. in citrate THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, JAN. Earth's Story ents hardly begin s Science n. 11—To Mme. ene Joliot-Curie, husband s the m > discovery— ‘\m'n’ something more as- ding that the elder Curies’ dis- dium itself. public, which ly of this discove name atifi has heard under the ficial radio- realize that it t of the earth and are different from dreamed be- caveries have led to scienti es that e ¥ of ‘the or of the earth wil tinually all things 3 1n may be anytiinz fore 1934 Ariificial rad version of e1owing. ol taat the i like the cosn creating new supplies terial substances forminz the earta crust With their new high-power tubes, the ntists s the “machines" may take a hand in sha recreation -of the elements planet power rays that strike the i of atoms. 99 Per Cent of You nuclei themselves chango. e nuclei are 99 per cent of all mass. Ninety-nine per cent, that is, ! home, your pos : : o | and of the most distant stars. . : i i sands of years ago philosoph- S 4l that there must be n power in the universe h could by a touch change the and the tance of every- - CLOSING WEEK OF ‘ PRAYER SERVICES The last of the Union Week of | Prayer, spons by the Minis- terial Association of Juneau and Douglas, will be held this evening in the First Presbyterian Church in the Native V. The cervices begin at 7:00 ! All are ¢ But the younz Curies have covered that man himself has this More—they have put the power into his hands, and the great ment is on in many labora- invited to be and join in the na- Curig’'s tion wide ce of prayer. { d the | | ake them 2 SENATORS ARE eed by Mme, | ght but never f ing the nuclei cf their hemes, telephones, pipe ~ientific development—arti iciat 1o :d—lcoms_the alchemist of the middle High pewc That mcans the and her haod; nging the structure of objects. rays s ck are 99 per cent of all ma peeple and even the lm\l distant stars. The young Curies are hopng to supplant radium with artificial r rctivity ON NORTHWESTERN because it is cheaper and less dangerous. i T 3, Two Alaska rvmlonnl Senators are aboard the Northwestern and | now bound for Juneau for the ses- sion opening next Monday. The Senators are James Frawley, of the gi who has been Second Division, and Luther C. pryiaus in (he states, is a return- Hess, of the Fourth Divislon. Both 0 nacsenzer aboard the North- |1 tepping from a show window in Are"accompanled by thelr eS. | western. | ner Juneau Frock Shop yester- o -+ | day TULLEN COMING NORTH | W. 8. Pullen, of the Alaska E! Light and Power Company, | ked with the details of atoms m: overy is the stary, now told f 1aps the first time outside sc circles of how the Curies caught the scientif] of fame after twice just m: the boat. ‘Their laboratory places where Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney's four-year-old filly, High Glee, ushered in the Southern California rac. ing season by winning the Christmas Day stakes before 50,000 spectators at the Santa Anita track at Ar- cadia. Upper: a portion of the crowd present. Lower: Hinh Glee winning, Chictoney second and Risku- lus third. (Associated Press Photos) sin; E. sodium Lawrence bom- of salt different thing else. The r o were these new es disintegrating like behavior of nuclei of atoms. In Trays the Curies' laboratory and in most of the other great laboratories there was another strange thing, that Jight | eyeryone had seen ‘and nobody ded| thought much about. After ordinary substances been bombarded b; dium ray other extra-powerful rays, therc was an te: The stuff bombarded continued for a short time to give off radiation. I thought that “thinzs just ettle down at once.” INJURED IN J. Brumberg is confined to her apartment because of in- juries received in a full while PARKS RETURNING FALL was one of e Bitks, strange when the lium was bomb. powerful radiation. There scintillation which nobody derstood. The Cur n failed to realiz E Ultincote Particles of '\lau r inzland, recognized on as neutrons, ulti- es of matter never be- fore known. Azain a little later, the Curies| Suffering Humanity the trails drawn like( It was the Curies who first dis- moke by electrons div- | covered Wi nd that was the greatest discove of all three h the vapor of a cloud | saw some tracks curving ' These bombarded substances were direction. Ino longer the same things which ks were in a magnetic the scientists had placed under the in v .aich electrons could not |k -powered rays. seen. The| The atoma nuclei had chang- made | ed; that conside of own kind of | th ibstance had com alter- one of the ed its nature, had bl ome some asking him ange trails could e by some foolish- s predicted by a nt young Eng- , P. A. M. Dirac. > theory said there would be s” in electrons, or “anti-elec- " The scientist replied it was just a theory—not practicable. So the Curies remained pu: Meanwhile Anderson, the America: discovered that the trails were made by positive bits of electricity —n¢ articles of matter. Again the Curies had missed. Probing the ‘After-Effect’ But all this work was in the| same unknown vorld—the peculiar | i the things Gooige A. Parks, Cadastral En- | ending the d into a Sk kind of sodium, giving otf rays more owerful than radium itself. But : disinteg: s new sod- fum did not change back into ordi- \nary sodium. " It became fferent chemical suf- |ing you may take ady alf the ot ice have been into anzes in nbarded and hing . different st of all, yi the Italian, rayed Gold like- un- but ed when Fermi, it with neutron beams. wise changed. ‘The Curies, with humanity’s fering in mind, con: rated upon trying ,to produce artificial radium which they hope may be more use- ful than real radium. They have named it radiophosphate. 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