COURSE OF ATOMS
DISPLAY AT EXHIBITION IN LONDON British Official Wireless (Received November 21, 6.30 p.m.) PUGBY, November 20. An exhibition, which reveals to .he public some of the most exciting advances in the last 25 years in the methods of physical investigation, have been opened at the Science Museum, South Kensington. It is an exhibition of atom tracks, consisting chiefly of photographs of tracks of single atoms and electrons, moving at high speeds in the air or other coses, but also including various apparatus. The photographs of the atom tracks represent the work done in the Cavendish Laboratory, at Cambridge, and in America, France, Germany, Russia and elsewhere. The collection is stated to be the most comprehensive of its kind and includes historic photographs taken thirteen years ago ry Professor Blackett, the first to reco.d the atom in collision with the nucleus of another atom, and the subsequent disintegration.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 8
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150COURSE OF ATOMS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20891, 22 November 1937, Page 8
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