Science: Neutron

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...

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