Now I Know What The Atom Looks

We Are Rather Like Children, Who Must Take A Watch To Pieces To See How It Works.

I Have To Keep Going, As There Are Always People On My Track. I Have To Publish My Present Work As Rapidly As Possible In Order To Keep In The Race. The Best Sprinters In This Road Of Investigation Are Becquerel And The Curies.

From The Results So Far Obtained It Is Difficult To Avoid The Conclusion That The Long-range Atoms Arising From Collision Of Alpha Particles With Nitrogen Are Not Nitrogen Atoms But Probably Atoms Of Hydrogen, Or Atoms Of Mass 2. If This Be The Case, We Must Conclude That The Nitrogen Atom Is Disintegrated Under The Intense Forces Developed In A Close Collision With A Swift Alpha Particle, And That The Hydrogen Atom Which Is Liberated Formed A Constituent Part Of The Nitrogen Nucleus.

The More Physics You Have The Less Engineering You Need.

The Year 1896 ... Marked The Beginning Of What Has Been Aptly Termed The Heroic Age Of Physical Science. Never Before In The History Of Physics Has There Been Witnessed Such A Period Of Intense Activity When Discoveries Of Fundamental Importance Have Followed One Another With Such Bewildering Rapidity.