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There most probably is a neutron, smallest bit, last resolvable particle of Matter. Last Summer when Dr. W. Pauli of Zurich propounded the idea at Pasadena, the fact was less certain (TIME, June 29). Last week there was almost no doubt. Dr. James Chadwick of Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, brightest spot of British science, declared for the existence of neutrons. Ernest Baron Rutherford, director of the Cavendish Laboratory, confirmed the investigation. And no brash statements ever come from Professor Rutherford, 1908 Nobel Laureate, the man who established the existence and nature of radioactive transformations, the electrical structure...
...following the clues of radio-activity that Drs. Pauli and Chadwick separately reached their conclusions. Recently Professor Walther Bothe of Giessen, Germany, bombarded the element beryllium with alpha particles. Something happened to the alpha particles. The particles contained four units of positive electricity (protons) and two of negative electricity (electrons) when they crashed into the beryllium. Two protons of an alpha particle seemed to cling to the nucleus of a beryllium atom (thereby theoretically transmuting that atom of beryllium into an atom of carbon). The particle's other two protons and the two electrons seemed changed into what Professor...
...Pauli, on his part, observed that when beta rays pop away from a substance like radium, the substance loses a certain amount of energy. But the energy of the departing rays is always less than the substance's energy loss. What happens to the difference? Dr. Pauli surmised that it rides away on what he called a neutron...
...idea of the neutron was put forward formally as an attractive speculation by Dr. R. M. Langer and Dr. N. Rosen of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a communication to the physical review of the American Physical Society in June 1931. Professor W. Pauli of the Institute of Technology at Zuruch, Switzerland, also suggested the utility of the neutron when he spoke last spring before the American Physical Society. He suggested that the neutron might offer a reasonable explanation of some fine structure in the spectra of elements
...Hans Holbein", Professor Pauli, Fogg Lecture Room...