LORD RUTHERFORD'S MIRROR
Lord Macmillan, who distribute^ awards to students of the Trades Training School in London recently, said:— "I stayed the night in the house in Cambridge of one of the greatest physicists of the present day, whose knowledge of the highest forms of-science is world-wide, and I was under the regrettable necessity of having to point out to him that the mirror in his spare bedroom would not stand at the angle I put it. What is the use of being able to split the atom, as Lord Rutherford can do, if he can't provide his guest with a mirror that can stand at a proper angle but requires to be propped up with a hairbrush or a pincushion?"
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 8
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121LORD RUTHERFORD'S MIRROR Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 149, 21 December 1936, Page 8
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