Teacher Lectures Given at UCRL During Summer of 1956

Abstract

Nueloar F o r c e s -0 w e n C h a m b e r l a i n~: . , , . . 92 Nuclear E n e r g y Lcvels -I s a d o r e ~e r l r n a n ' . . . . Tho T r a n s u r a n i u m E l e m e n t s -Glenn T . Seaborg /. ,107 PREFACEIn April of 1955 tho Radiation Laboratory of the University of California astit oul lo 18 high schools in tho Bay Area l e t t e r s which said, in p a r l , "Tho sbjoet sf thie p r o g r a m i s t o hclp science t e a c h e r s achieve ,some , , p w t O e a 1 knowlaclge and a x p~r i a n e e i n nuclcar science by working with some of our baeie resloarch groupe in p h y~i c e and chemistry. In thisdway we belieye that we can a e e i a l 111ses tcachcrs in t h e i r efforts t o make their students m o r e Ekwars of the naLuro of a t o m i c energy and help t o p r e p a r e them for the impact sf a l s m f s enorgy in tlroir tuturo, I t ' I TI10 rablponse wae ~n t h u~i a~t i c and 14 high echo01 t e a c h e r s were fselect@cl for the program. Thcee t e a h h e r s w e r e assigned t o various e x p e r itnontal groups (st tho Laboratory in P h y a i c~, C h e m i s t r y , and,Biochemietry . z t rn the rola sf junior ~e i c n t i e t e t o d o whatever work was n e c e s s a r y , with that , BPeuY > . a A eoriae sf lceturau by sonior staff m e m b e r s of the Laboratory was , ,. 'itrrangad for 'I'uoetlny and l'trureday mornings. It w a s intended that each toneher ~i~lisuld write up onc or m o r e of these talks and the whole,should be wada evailnbls to a l l . Editorial difficulties prevented completion of this pttnea of t t r~ p r o g r a m .In gc\t\c?rtrl it wnH folt that the p r o g r a m was most worth while a n .#ucc,e$#ful. So ~tluch R Q , that it was rcpeatud on a nearly doubled s c a l e 1956, l'lro undoreigncd wiia asked t o attend the lectures and write a s e r trstas on thorn.