THE ATOM.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18148, 11 August 1924, Page 10

THE ATOM.

ARRANGEMENT OF CORE. hidden key to science. VIEWS OF SIR E. RUTHERFORD. , CABLE —PB3SS ASSOCIATION—COPKUGH?) * (REtTTEn'3 TELEGRAMS.). (Received August 10th, 5.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, August 9. To Canada goes the credit of being t ] lo country where the foundations have been laid of discoveries which are now revolutionising theories of chemistry and physics in all parts of tho world, and will exert a great effect on industrial life. Sir Ernest Kutherford', addressing the Rotary Club of Toronto described his early experiments at McGill. Lniversitv, Montreal. He said it. was in this Dominion that the first experiments on modern ideas of the structure of matter were carried out-, and the credit belonged in some measure to Canada. Tho result had been a veritable scientific revolution, and the work had only commenced. "The structure of every inanimate object, gold, wood, and the air we breathe, depends on the atoms of which it is formed," ho said. * f All, to begin with, . are lormed of the same substance. The discovery of these atomic arrangements will enable man to gain a much greater degree of control over the earth." Explaining his own theory of the structure of the atom, he said if. an atom were the size of a house, • the research workers would find at its centre a core the size of a man's, fist which controls the arrangements of the whole. The parts of the atom outskle this core are made up of a number of electrons revolving about the centre and governed by it as the son (governs the movements of the. planets. The core itself is made up of a number of infinitesimal particles each two thousand times heavier than an electron, and charged with electricity. The small particles going to make up this core are arranged: in different ways, and, practically speaking, the key to the whole of science lies hidden in the arrangement of this minute core to each atom.