"One of the memorable moments of my life……" — Freeman Dyson

One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby… - Freeman Dyson

"One of the memorable moments of my life was when Willard Libby came to Princeton with a little jar full of crystals of barium xenate. A stable compound, looking like common salt, but much heavier. This was the magic of chemistry, to see xenon trapped into a crystal."

— Freeman Dyson

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O. Hahn and F. Strassmann have discovered a new type of nuclear reaction, the splitting into two smaller nuclei of… — Lise Meitner
We are … the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear… — Ralph Caplan
Barium, which is commonly found in power plant waste and scrubber wastewater, has been linked to heart problems and diseases… — Charles Duhigg
When chemists die, they barium. — Nikhil Saluja

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