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Director Robert A. Millikan of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics (Pasadena, Calif.), Nobel Prizeman in physics for 1923 (for isolation and measurement of the electron): "I delivered three lectures on the Terry foundation at Yale University, on 'Evolution in Science and Religion.' I first showed the breaking down of what the 19th Century so confidently regarded as a final interpretation of the physical universe, by 20th Century discoveries-radio activity, the inter-convertability of matter and light, the corpuscular theory of radiant energy, etc. Next I showed that while there is always 'something new under...
Hydrogen atoms, tiny little things composed of one positive particle of electricity (the proton) and one madly whirling negative particle (the electron), which goes round and round its fellow just as the earth circles the sun, have been occupying the attention of physicists and chemists at Princeton University...
...billion times less dense than hydrogen, the thinnest gas known. Its particles are 4,000 times smaller than hydrogen molecules, (the smallest known). So fast are these particles moving (as shown by the tenuousness of the substance) that they go 23.5 times as fast as the fastest electron (electric particle circling an atom's nucleus) and 57% faster than light. They go, in fact...
...large as a raindrop, "they would cover the earth with a foot of water." Yet, "if we made ,one of these hydrogen atoms, which we used to think of as hard and indivisible, so large that it became a yard in diameter, nothing would yet be appreciable, because its electron would still be only a pinhead in size and its nucleus 2,000 times smaller. So while you might distinguish the orbit, its planet [electron] and sun [nucleus] would still be nearly invisible. In other words, practically all of the hydrogen atom is apparently space . ." .as empty...
...that they had made a discovery. What this was, no gossips could accurately say. All agreed, however, that it was something of vast moment-epochal, recondite, revolutionary. Some averred that these men of science had devised a terrific explosive, others that they had found a way to harness the electron. Wild fellows even declared, in a parched whisper, that they had made a synthetic...