"STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM"
Lucidity and humour.are the two characteristics which . have ■ gained for Professor Coleridge Farr^ of • Christchurch, the reputation of being the most successful lecturer !on. abstruse; physical subjects in the Dominion. The Philosophical Society 'is ] providing an opportunity for the public' of Welling-, ton to, hear him discourse or "Tha Structure of the Atom" to-morrow nighfc at the Dominion Museum. The' secreta of the. atom have been forced from' it very'largely, by the experiments of tho New Zealand-born scientist; Sir Ernest Eutherford, whom Professor Farr ■ considers thn greatest" experimentalist of all time, a claim he ■ will •no doubt endeavour to substantiate in' his lecture.Those interested in', the. theoreticar:aspects, of the subject will, loojt forward' to his treatment of the quantum theory —if _h e can bring that to the comprehension of, a popular, audience, he is indeed a" wizard, but he success of his treatment. of the , relativity . hypothesisraises hopes. ■•" ,\: :.':'v : '■.:'.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 3
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154"STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM" Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 97, 21 October 1924, Page 3
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