SPLITTING ATOMS
RUTHERFORD BEFORE THE PUBLIC
(Received March 24, 2 p.m.) LONDON, March 23. A crowded audience saw Lord Rutherford splitting atoms in the theatre ai the Royal Institution, thus publicly committing the "crime" for which medieval alchemists were burned' at the stake for attempting the transmutation of the elements. Apparatus generating a hundred thousand-volts was used by Lord Rutherford and his assistants to disintegrate atoms at the rate of a thousand a minute while a system of wireless amplification enabled the audience to hear the "shells" Bombarding atoms.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 71, 24 March 1934, Page 14
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