User talk:Headbomb#Casting aspersions

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[[Draft:James J. Brady (physicist)]]

I'd appreciate your opinion/help in evaluating whether to address claims James J. Brady made in multiple interviews (primary sources) after he retired, that he was "the first person in the United States to split an atom and the first in the world to do so with a cyclotron". (See [https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-bradys-research/171925936/ Brady's research has had a far-reaching impact], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-capital-journal-solar-is-the-way-t/171921202/ Soalr is the way to go], and [https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-james-j-brady/171923631/ his obituary].

I asked a physicist for an opinion, and he said Brady must have felt the need to burnish his legacy, but where was his publication?!

Brady did leave an extended description of his version of events Physics Today "Letters" March 1983 [https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/36/3/11/434375/More-unpublished-physics p.11],[https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article-abstract/36/3/13/434446/More-on-classification-scheme p.13], which I quoted from in the draft. But is the quote box with the 1932 acknowledgement published contemporaneously by Lawrence, Livingston, and White enough to dispel Brady's later claims in the popular press?

Or is this a case where discretion is the better part of valor, and Brady's claims should just be ignored in his WP bio? — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 23:34, 16 May 2025 (UTC)

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