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Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1920, Page 12

All article of exceptional interest appeared in tlic April number of Pearson's Magazine, announcing that Professor Sir Ernest Rutherford, the eminent New Zealand scientist, now of Birmingham University, and son of Mr. J. Kntherford, of New Plymouth, has split the atom, and mankind is now on the threshold of something which the first scientists living say will completely change our daily lives and transform the world. Whence comes the mighty atom? says the writer, and he proceeds to explain that matter is composed of infinitesimal particles called molecules, and molecules are composed of atoms. From the latter conies the new force—from exactly the same thing that gives water its power when turned into steam. Heat splits the. water into molecules, which, freed, expand; But this splitting of matter into molecules lias been carried one step further—the molecule has been «plit into its atoms. The latter generate force exactly in the same way as steam,lint with a force many million times greater. The writer (Shaw Desmond) takes the readers into tho now world of atornio force, and explains fjie blessings' it will provide for mankind. Sir Ernest Rutherford, he say?*, by his discovery, has made the first step towards the control 'of this rie\y Dower