Show I Young Men Set Records That Startled World I Oliver Wendell Holmes the famous famous fa fa- poet was not tolerant of youth The youngsters who showed signs Igns of accomplishing things were in his opinion conceited In hi the morning and sleepy in the afternoon Youth has confounded him however however how how- ever for it has more than held its own in discoveries that have brought progress to the world observes a writer In London Answers Magazine Maga Maga- zine Dr Niels Bohr Dohr of Copenhagen was only 28 when he be startled the scientific world by saying that the atom was a miniature solar alar system but but he was right In 1922 at the age of 37 he received the Nobel prize for the greatest discovery in physics the physics the youngest man ever to receive that coveted award Henry Mosely an Englishman was only 26 28 when he analyzed the elements by the re reflection of rays X-rays from their atoms lie He was killed two Iwo years later at al Gallipoli one of the greatest losses of the war for nothing nothing nothing noth noth- ing could recompense the world for forthe forthe forthe the loss Iou of his brilliant brain Sir William Crookes was only three years older when hen he rOl d a aI anew 1 I new metal thallium by II a new method meth- meth od ad the spectroscope Still I Briton Perlin Perkin was 18 when he ills dis j I covered the first aniline dye The celebrated Pasteur had just turned 20 when he began experimenting experimenting with tartaric acid He Ill solved his problem six years later and the whole world knows and has benefited from the result Sir Isaac Newton had worked out the binomial theorem the method of tangents differential and integral calculus and the law of gravitation before he was 24 In his own words I was then en in the prime of my age for invention Vant Hoff Hof was a student of 22 when he published an page 11 pamphlet pam pamphlet entitled The Structure of the Atom In Space It provoked roars of laughter from older scientists who said IBid he was crazy Vant Hut Hull smiled and before long investigations investigations investigations proved him correct The laugh laughter ter ceased and was was replaced b by somewhat sheepish grins partially hidden by gray beards Albert Einstein conceived his fa la famous famous theory of relativity at the 8 agi of 18 and published It when he war oil w i 23 25 |