STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM.

Otago Witness, Issue 3987, 12 August 1930, Page 7

STRUCTURE OF THE ATOM.

WORK AT CAVENDISH LABORATORY. WELLINGTON, August 6. Professor T. H. Laby, professor of physics at Melbourne University, who left Melbourne in February last to visit England and the Continent, arrived in Wellington by the Rangitiki to-day. Professor Laby’s chief mission was to familiarise himself with the recent progress of physical science and arrange for the publication of research work carried out by Melbourne University. In addition to this, he completed, with Mr Broughton Edge, the report of the Imperial Geophysical Experimental Survey. The report will be published by the Cambridge University Press. One impression gained by Professor Laby during his stay in England was that there was a possibility of considerably greater co-operation in scientific research carried on in different parts of the Empire. He saw a good deal of the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge, which he considers the greatest research laboratory in the world. The institution is in charge of Sir Ernest Rutherford. Much work is beings done there at present’ on the constitution of the atom and the structure of the nucleus is being attacked from every angle. Sir Ernest Rutherford, he added, is retiring from the presidentship of the Royal Society and taking over the chairmanship of committees of the Department of Scientific and Industrial