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...England was an astute physicist, just past 40, whose experiments in science had continued even while he was interned in Germany during the War. Dr. James Chadwick, working under Lord Rutherford in Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, was studying the same strange rays obtained by the Curie-Joliots. He found that they were electrically neutral like light but were actually particles 1,845 times as heavy as electrons. Thus was discovered the neutron (TIME, March 7, 1932). The Curie-Joliots confirmed his discovery, showed that neutrons behaved as only electrically inert particles could...
British science was impressed. Kapitza was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, first alien to be thus honored in two centuries. To house his generator, helium liquefier and other equipment, an ornate new laboratory was built in the courtyard of Cavendish Laboratory, with steel and scarlet furniture in the director's office, separate rooms for the heavy apparatus, vibration-damping walls, an Eric Gill plaque of Lord Rutherford, boss of Cavendish Laboratory, in the entrance hall. Cost: $75,000. Happy Dr. Kapitza went in as director, started investigating the magnetic resistance of substances at low temperatures. At three...
Died. Twin sons, born to Lord Charles Cavendish, second son of the Duke of Devonshire, and Lady Cavendish (Dancer Adele Astaire); few hours after birth; in London. Two years ago Lady Cavendish lost her first child, a daughter, the day it was born...
...Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory works a young Briton of Swiss extraction who is indisputably one of the few great mathematical logicians in the world. His Principles oj Quantum Mechanics is a monument of human cerebration. That book is utterly incomprehensible to ordinary men who had never heard of its author until Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac won a Nobel Prize last year. Only a few of the ablest scholar-scientists can follow the chain of symbolic reasoning in Principles of Quantum Mechanics, and among them none is more articulate, more authoritative, more sensible than Sir James Hopwood Jeans, president...
...faces which meet at the attacking point are experimental physics and mathematical physics. Men on the experimental front are generally grouped under captains. A British veteran of 30 years and the accredited proponent of matter's electrical structure is the captain of Cambridge University's famed Cavendish Laboratory, Ernest Rutherford, ist Baron Rutherford. The two great U. S. captains are Caltech's Robert Andrews Millikan and the University of Chicago's Arthur Holly Compton, cosmic ray specialists and milestone men in the history of the electron. France's No. 1 team of subatomic investigators...