Bakerian Lecture: Nuclear Constitution of Atoms
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First edition
London : Harrison & Sons, 1920. First edition, in the journal issue as the Royal Society published it, of the paper in which Rutherford predicted the neutron — the neutral particle that his student and colleague James Chadwick found in 1932. Rutherford had discovered the atomic nucleus in 1911 and observed the proton in 1919, and by 1920 the nucleus was known to hold nearly the whole mass of the atom; yet the
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