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The Fly In The Cathedral by Brian Cathcart Viking Pounds 14.99 .Pounds 11.99 (0870 165 0870)****
At the beginning of May 1932, the greatest triumph in British physics didn't hit the headlines in quite the way the scientists responsible would have liked. For many years, Ernest Rutherford and his team at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge had been in close contact with the Manchester Guardian journalist J. G. Crowther, who could be relied upon to explain their achievements in clear prose unencumbered by hyperbole.See the full content of this document
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Exploding the Atom's Secrets ; Review
Unfortunately, Crowther was away when the really big story broke: Ernest Walton and Sir John Cockcroft had, for the first time, smashed lithium atoms with protons, successfully revealing...
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