THE MIGHTY ATOM
EXCITING RESEARCH WORK PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORDS [ British Official Wirelees.] RUGBY, Nov. 21. An exhibition which reveals to the public some of the most exciting advances in the last twenty-five years In the methods of physical investigation has been opened at the science museum in South Kensington. It is an exhibition consisting chiefly of photographs of the tracks of single atoms and electrons moving at high speeds in the air or other gases, and also includes various apparatus. Photographs of atom tracks represent work done in the Vavendish Laboratory at Cambridge and in America, France, Germany, Russia, and elsewhere. The collection is stated to be the most comprehensive of its kind. It includes the historic photograph taken thirteen years ago by Professor Blackett, who was the first to record an atom in collision with the nucleus oi another atom and disintegrating it.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 279, 24 November 1937, Page 7
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143THE MIGHTY ATOM Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 279, 24 November 1937, Page 7
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