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American support for nuclear power, which plummeted following the 2011 Fukushima accident in Japan, has largely recovered.
Two Los Alamos Laboratory scientists discovered Arthur Ruhlig’s major contributions to fusion physics, and they did so ...
SIR JAMES CHADWICK has been pre-elected Master of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, of which he has been a fellow and more lately an honorary fellow. Sir James began his scientific work under ...
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Secret Audition for James Brown Role Uncovered During Trial Sean “Diddy” Combs almost became the Godfather of Soul—at least on screen. In a wild twist revealed during his ongoing ...
“I had many sleepless nights,” recalled the British physicist James Chadwick in a 1969 interview. “And I had then to start taking sleeping pills. It was the only remedy.” ...
Instructions on how to build a nuclear reactor have been revealed from five sealed envelopes that have lain hidden for almost 70 years. The documents were sent to the UK's Royal Society for ...
James Chadwick of Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory, brightest spot of British science, declared for the existence of neutrons. Ernest Baron Rutherford, director of the Cavendish ...
As the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography about Oppenheimer (American Prometheus) notes, the discussion at the October 28-30, 1949 meeting of the General Advisory Committee to the Atomic Energy ...
When British physicist James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932, he supposedly said, “I am afraid neutrons will not be of any use to anyone.” The UK’s neutron user facility – the ISIS Neutron and ...