Ten years ago Dr. Clinton Joseph Davisson and his associates at Manhattan's Bell Telephone Laboratories were performing an experiment something like a blind man's investigation of an elephant by the sense of touch. In this case the elephant was a beam of invisible electrons. When Albert Einstein found out what they were doing, he exclaimed: "We stand here before a new property of matter for which the strictly causal theories hitherto in vogue are unable to account."
Research on the atom has attracted some of the most brilliant minds of contemporary science, and...
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