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NY “age came one dismal, rainy Janu- wiolin-pjaying _Albe: \ muclell of at ‘ might ap- ere cals © pilgram ap. * Yan't it about time that an appro- aeeaey “stein c “a, Saw Aeti By Thomas * Henry figure of bigbrowed, ‘Out of his tlonary concept that maa _ energy were interchangable, that) every gram of mess was the same; . thing as so many ergs of energy. ‘He propounded it in 2 mathemat- {cal statement which has become one ’ of the major cornerstones of aclence ‘ e-met—< being the velocty of light, or about 186,000 miles 2 second. ‘The first time I met Dr. Einstein’ Rieter Peer meeting of the merican Association for the_Ad- vancément of Science.in Pittsburgh, Thristmas week, 1934. He was being . Questioned about the Possibility of . bringing about some conversion of mass into sneer by splitting the “Yes,” ne Treat physicist said, “but it would not ‘be practical. “It would be like @ blind man on @ dark night hunting ducks by fir- ing a shot gun straight up din the "air in country where there were very lew ducks.” ‘Some said then ‘that this ste " ment made the attalnment of at years before Hi sae ‘The first faint dawn of the atomic _ 87y afterpoon tp 1939 in a at George Washington ‘valet ‘A few weeks ago during « meeting of the+american Physica} Boclety at the University, Willis) of the New York Times ‘ | to show him that classroom. I hope I took him to the right one. He proach = tgd Mould pte fo make suggestion to President Cloyd Heck. Marvin. priate tablet was placed on the wall of that room? It was the pirthplace iter, then on the staff of, Bciencd Service, and I happened to be the only reporters present at that fateful conference on stomic vil 1934, but Ate j | Behind the atomic age stands the ce tay levervbody else had stressed so much, lately escaped ‘Russia and now, Starnge to say this interview with Mic Ni was gn the George Washington's man who admittedly knew nothing |; rT. fe — staff, writing _ incomprehensible about tt was the first tlme that the Mr. Rese equations on the blackbosrd;-of the splitting of the atom got on the 4 mathematically minded / rather ‘front pages of the New York news- Mr. Ttacy phiegmatic Dr, Edw ier, a Papers. ae : Mr. Cdraon fellow refugee, disputing these eeee . equations with Gamov; of Dr. about a year later, with the war Mr. Egan rico Fermi, Italian refugee who a (full swing and secrecy restrictions Mr. Hena footy had missed the same |Imposed. I aj ir. Hendon As it has been said, “by lica’s Mr. Pennington __ Quinn Tamm _ of working elt night and fnally achieving the Dasion of the bran~ fom ator at sunrise, ° very maisty was the future which fault Tesult from the ptrange new Uscovery on that gray January bree ‘ sumember bec Ve id Fenn am py a you mia you as th the barely supressed excitement |fit'can be done ls to cet uranium in! shown by some of the ars | the form of 8 gas, uranium fuoride,| “-ulhy there anythin, aew on ae rating 0235 from ordi = tum” Thasked. physiclat in the world. They them. selves were ns much ia the dark as : anybody-—but they realized that world would never be quite the | they, and they f \tmosphere ywhed o.t everything ebe. It!) Cts take 7 be misstated some of! eel Potter and I ov ieee ’ onally have) argued over ‘our we eee be lan you ee, At that thme ‘certain eruclat’ ex- periments were in Trostess at Jobos ‘} Hopkins University in Baltimore. i went there one afternoon and got a very cold reception from the physicist in charge—so much so that a ‘was not until about six months I threatened to complain to Preai- later that the mystic symbol Sent Isaiah Bowman. He didn’ t 4 picture, | Te nz ||seem,in the least intimidated and 3 z tipae at true.” rnp “thaj fusing . aay Bt) Leses ington Univeraity, Nobel prise win- RROORD BS ro. Eine on. Sad ees pr wrx, 78 GY 21 1047 . A sa nt CONTAINED . = BA AUG1 81947 as WASHINGTON NEWS