The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 12, Issue 3 (June 1, 1937)
The Structure of Atoms
The Structure of Atoms.
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Nelson College, inseparably associated with the name of Lord Rutherford.
Professor Andrade, of the University of London, in an exposition of Rutherford's experiments with the structure of the atom, said that the scientific interest of atomic transmutation could not be exaggerated, but the prospect of an actual engineering use of atomic energy seemed remote.
The total amounts of energy with which the Cambridge school workers are dealing are ludicrously small, Andrade said, from an engineering point of view. “But they are not so absurd from a medical point of view, for here it is not a large amount of energy that is required, but energy of a very special kind that can be produced locally, as in the radium treatment of cancer.”