Things are looking good. I'm going to place this article on hold for 1 week (until August 9, 2013), pending resolution of the following points:
in the early life section, "With the help of the director of the Institute of physics..." - could you please clarify whether this is an Institute of Physics or an institute of physics?
in the Radiation Laboratory section, "...as he now feared that was in Europe was inevitable" - I think "war in Europe" is meant, but am not certain. Please check and fix.
in the Radiation Laboratory section, "Segrè went looking for element 93 but did not find it, as he was looking for an element chemically akin to rhenium rather than a rare earth element, which is what he discovered" - what did he discover? Rhenium? a rare earth element?
Y Re-worded to "but did not find it, as he was looking for an element chemically akin to
rhenium instead of a
rare earth element, which is what element 93 turned out to be." It is probably hard for the reader to imagine this, as the gazing at a modern periodic table in chemistry class in high school would have made it seem obvious that Neptunium is a rare earth, but Segrè did not have a late 20th century chart.
Hawkeye7 (
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21:24, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Later Life section, "...and told Segrè to let him know when Pontecorvo wrote from Russia..." - I think what is implied here is that Alvarez's comment led Segre to move to UIUC, but it should be rephrased to be more encyclopedic.
Y I have expanded on this. I think Segrè was afraid of being blackballed as a communist sympathiser. But he does explicit say this,
Things are looking good. I'm going to place this article on hold for 1 week (until August 9, 2013), pending resolution of the following points:
in the early life section, "With the help of the director of the Institute of physics..." - could you please clarify whether this is an Institute of Physics or an institute of physics?
in the Radiation Laboratory section, "...as he now feared that was in Europe was inevitable" - I think "war in Europe" is meant, but am not certain. Please check and fix.
in the Radiation Laboratory section, "Segrè went looking for element 93 but did not find it, as he was looking for an element chemically akin to rhenium rather than a rare earth element, which is what he discovered" - what did he discover? Rhenium? a rare earth element?
Y Re-worded to "but did not find it, as he was looking for an element chemically akin to
rhenium instead of a
rare earth element, which is what element 93 turned out to be." It is probably hard for the reader to imagine this, as the gazing at a modern periodic table in chemistry class in high school would have made it seem obvious that Neptunium is a rare earth, but Segrè did not have a late 20th century chart.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
21:24, 2 August 2013 (UTC)reply
Later Life section, "...and told Segrè to let him know when Pontecorvo wrote from Russia..." - I think what is implied here is that Alvarez's comment led Segre to move to UIUC, but it should be rephrased to be more encyclopedic.
Y I have expanded on this. I think Segrè was afraid of being blackballed as a communist sympathiser. But he does explicit say this,