Lord Rayleigh and the Discovery of Argon
In 1892 Lord Rayleigh was weighing gases in glass globes at the Cavendish Laboratory, and he found that the nitrogen he made in his…
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The Discovery of the Neutron
In 1920 Ernest Rutherford told the Royal Society that the nucleus of the atom must contain a particle nobody had ever seen: a neutral…
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The Discovery of the Structure of DNA
On the morning of Saturday 28 February 1953, two young men walked into the Eagle pub in Cambridge and announced, over a beer at…
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