How Big An Atom Is
Received Friday, 7 p.m. TORGiNTO, April 7. It Would be another 25 years befote practieal applications would be made of a$omic research, Professor Marcus Oliphant, leading atomic physicist, said today. He gave as reason, the fact that applied science generally lagged a quarter of a century behind pnre science. Professor Oliphant said "Scientists are no smarter than anyone else. Their mumojumbo just conceals ignorance." Recommending they should 'express themselves in simple language, Professor Oliphant said: "The atom is a relatively big thing abont one-hundredth of a millionth of an ineh. The The nnclens is abont ten thousand times smaller than the atom." He added that scientists knew something about the bricks which eomposed the nuclear wall bnt still did not know what held them together. WSA/WVSAiA^AA^AA/S(VWWWW\AA/WVWV
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Chronicle (Levin), 9 April 1949, Page 5
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