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Ernest Rutherford
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“Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. … The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.”
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) first seen 1902 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Cause and Nature of Radioactivity" in Philosophical Magazine (September 1902)
“We may in these processes obtain very great quantities of energy, but on the average we cannot hope to obtain energy for practical use in this way. The bombardment of the atom is a very poor and inefficient way of producing energy and anyone who is looking for a source of cheap power in the transformation of the atom, is talking pure moonshine... Some day the knowledge we may gain may be of practical value, but there is no indication of it yet.”
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) first seen 1933 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 1933 October 7, The Calgary Daily Herald, Power Flow From Atoms Impossible by A. C. Cummings (Calgary Herald’s London Bureau), Quote Page 28, Column 1, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
“It is just as surprising as if a gunner fired a shell at a single sheet of paper and for some reason or other the projectile bounded back again.”
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Rutherford, discussing the results of a 1909 experiment investigating alpha particle scattering, during the Cawthron Lecture at the Cawthron Institute in Nelson, New Zealand in 1925. Quoted in Arthur Stewart Eve (1939).…
“It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.”
Ernest Rutherford (1871–1937) first seen 1909 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From a lecture delivered on October 15, 1936 at Cambridge University, discussing the result of an experiment in 1909 where alpha particles were scattered backwards when fired at a thin sheet of metal foil, which led to …