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TWENTY-SIX years have passed since the British Association last met at Leicester in 1907, and the apparently stable world of a quarter of a century ago has altered almost out of recognition. These changes in political, moral and spiritual values are reflected in the world of physical science, which differs almost toto cÅ"lo from the structure raised by the labours of the nineteenth century and its predecessors. But even then rumblings were apparent, and it is a remarkable fact that the discussion on atomic transmutation, opened in Section A (Mathematics and Physics) by Lord Rutherford on September 11, had its antitype in a sectional discussion on the constitution of the atom opened by Prof. Ernest Rutherford, as he then was, at the 1907 meeting, to which contributions were made by Lord Kelvin, Sir Oliver Lodge and Sir William Ramsay.
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F., A. Atomic Transmutation. Nature 132, 432–433 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132432a0
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