“ If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than th Ernest Rutherford
“ In the last four days I have got the (results) given by Tantalum, Chromium, Manganese, Iron , Nickel, Cobalt and Copper ... The chief result is that ... the result for any metal (is) quite easy to gue… Henry Moseley
“ The history of atomism is one of reductionism – the effort to reduce all the operations of nature to a small number of laws governing a small number of primordial objects. Leon M. Lederman
“ In the vestibule of the Manchester Town Hall are placed two life-sized marble statues facing each other. One of these is that of John Dalton ... the other that of James Prescott Joule. ... Thus the ho… Henry Enfield Roscoe
“ After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had learned to understand the language of spectra. So manifold wa… Arnold Sommerfeld
