Word: rutherford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What were the practical effects of these discoveries? For the first few decades of the century, there were essentially none. Once or twice the public took interest, as it did when the first atoms were "smashed" by Rutherford in 1919. For the most part the new physics ticked like a time bomb underground...