In the Laboratory
‘TBE BBC programme on the Cavendish Laboratories at Cambridge (from 1¥YC) was heard, topically enough, on the same day on which the investigation of D.N.A. was announced in the newspapers. It was a chatty but informative programme, in which three well-briefed announcers were evidently determined to keep the somewhat re-
tiring scientists strictly to the point, and no nonsense about it. Listeners were given a slightly alarming glimpse of medical research under conditions of strict medical supervision; of the elec-tron-microscope which-to give an almost Disneyish touch to the proceed-ings-could be used to take. "chest Xtrays of flies"; and of the radio-astron-omer at work plotting a mysterious world of new stars. It was fitting that these new glimpses of the infinitely great and the almost infinitely little should come from the great laboratory which, for us, is linked with the name of Lord Rutherford. And what helped, more than anything else, to make it real was the recording of the actual noises that these things make-the keen of high-tension generators, the click of geigers, and the hissing roar of radio signals from the Milky Way. In their context, they appeared as some of the most exciting sounds in the world,
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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204In the Laboratory New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 725, 5 June 1953, Page 10
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