N

Nagaoka, Hantaro, 318

Nahmias, Maurice, 240 , 248 , 251 , 342 , 351 , 415

National Academy of Sciences (NAS), 89 , 481 , 507 , 509

National Advisory Cancer Council, 38 –9, 214 , 268 , 311 , 393 –4, 402

National Cancer Institute, 214

National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), 493 –4, 497 , 501 –4, 507 –9, 511 –3, 523

National Research Council (NRC), 8 –9, 12 –14, 104

Naval Research Laboratory, 501 , 505

Nelson, Eldred, 259

Neutron:

detection of, 417 –8, 428 ;

discovery of, 144 –7;

magnetic moment of, 421 –9;

views on, 155 , 164 –5

Nichols, R.C., 110

Nier, Alfred O., 450 , 453 –4, 515

Nobel committee, 489 –92

Nordau, Max, 29

Noyes, A.A., 9

Nuclear disintegration, 46 –7