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ALL who are interested in the discoveries of modern physics as to the intimate structure of the universe will be grateful to the authorities of Girton College for persuading Sir J. J. Thomson to deliver, and to the Cambridge University Press for publishing, this lecture. In the art of making the deep things of physics plain, not merely to the professional scientific worker but also to the educated world at large, Sir J. J. Thomson has few equals. It does not seem so very long since he was leading us beyond the atom into a new world of electrons. To him, however, “each discovery is not a terminus but an avenue leading to country as yet unexplored,” and he now invites us to accompany him to a region still more remote and even more fascinating, “Beyond the Electron.”
Beyond the Electron: a Lecture, given at Girton College on March 3, 1928.
By Sir J. J. Thomson. Pp. 44. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1928.) 2s. 6d. net.
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Beyond the Electron: a Lecture, given at Girton College on March 3, 1928 . Nature 122, 129 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122129a0
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