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To: Maxwell who wrote (39085)	10/12/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572384

MAXWELL - Re: " Fermi is he is the one that came up with the principle of "splitting the atom". " WRONG AGAIN ! Many, many physicists worked on this problem including Ernest Rutherford. Leo Szilard may have been the first to contemplate complete "atomic splitting" in early 1933, but Irene Curie and her husband Frederick Joliot actually "split" the first atoms using alpha particle radiation on aluminum foils, producing radioactive phosphorus in late 1933. Enrico Fermi didn't begin working on "atom splitting" until AFTER he read the Joliot-Curie results in early 1934 at a conference in Solvay. He then pursued radiation experiments using NEUTRON radiation as a source (instead of alpha particles). He eventually succeeded, first with fluorine, and then aluminum - which corroborated the Joliot-Curie results. Later he narrowed his focus to neutron radiation of uranium. Paul

To: Maxwell who wrote (39085)	10/12/1998 6:43:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572384

Maxwell, Dirk is such a great name is it not? Splitting the atom in two could possibly parallell Intels stock price splitting in two, what do you zink. Thanks for diggling the pertinent details on the impressive Mr. Dirk. Regards, Kash.

To: Maxwell who wrote (39085)	10/12/1998 8:38:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572384

Re: "No you understand why the K7 is in the same class as the Alpha 21264. Dirk Meyer title is the equivalent of Enrico Fermi in the Manhattan Project. If you don't know who Fermi is he is the one that came up with the principle of "splitting the atom". " Maxwell, you seem to be quite infatuated with this guy. Are you sure this doesn't cloud your judgement? EP