Show Freaks and Oddities In In Science N News evs The discovery In Cavendish laboratory Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge bride university London by James Chadwick of the neutron a particle so minute it carr carries es no o electrical charge and hailed as the greatest find in m inthe inthe the scientific world since the MINUTE the proton and the X X- X NEUTRON ray was announced today by the UND BY Baltimore Sun in a dispatch PHYSICIST from the Manchester Guardian The neutron was described as one of the t ultimate particles in nature so tiny it would take talc to make mae maea a mass weighing an ounce Neutrons arc not waves the dispatch said but hut particles but they have as particles hitherto unknown powers of pen pen- C In the realm of astronomy and the evolution c of the universe neutrons are arc of fundamental Im Importance lm- lm representing the first step In the evolution evolution tion of matter out of primeval prime electrons and protons pro pro- tons the paper said The Thc ultimate substance of the world Is elec and nd the simplest clement built bunt of electricity Is helium The neutron is halfway between electricity elec elec- and hell helium it is the urn embryonic form of ordinary matter growing but not born Neutrons are arc so penetrative and elusive because they have no electric charge The neutron consists of a a. proton and an electron bound closely together It is speculated the neutron may be the unit of magnetism for it presumably is a doublet as ma magnets mag nets are arc with both a north and south pole the dispatch dispatch dis dis- patch continued The discovery of Chadwick assistant director of radio-activity radio at tIle the laboratory arose out of In Investigations In- In by Giessen Irene Curie daughter of Mme Curie Curic and her husband M. M and Webster who had experimented with the properties emitted by beryllium when bombarded bombarded bom born barded b. b by radiations from the tile radioactive substance substance substance sub sub- stance known as polonium Physicists at the tile Johns Hopkins university when told of the discovery hailed the achievement as one of the first Importance Dr Joseph S. S Ames president of the university said The discovery if substantiated is worth all an the tile importance attributed to it Chadwick Is a physicist of ot high repute and Rutherford Chadwick's Chadwicks Chadwicks Chadwick's Chadwicks Chadwick's Chad- Chad wicks wick's superior would let nothing go out of his laboratory without its it's having been carefully checked cheeked and tested Dr Ames was a physicist before assuming the presidency of ot Johns Hopkins |