From the January 7, 1933, issue
By Science News
ATOM BUILDING KEEPS STARS SHINING, SAYS A.A.A.S. HEAD
The building up of other heavier atoms out of hydrogen stokes the internal heat of the stars, including the sun, Prof. Henry Norris Russell, Princeton University astronomer recently elected president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, suggested in the Maiben lecture before the Association.
The hardest problem of all star study is the source of the energy that keeps the stars shining, he explained. Synthesis and annihilation of atoms are the only two processes so far suggested that would supply enough heat to last for the millions of years of geological time.