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" It was quite the most incredible event that has ever happened to me in my life. 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. "
The Making of the Atomic Bomb - Page 49
by Richard Rhodes - 2012 - 928 pages
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Nuclear Science Teaching Aids and Activities

United States. Office of Education, John H. Woodburn - Nuclear physics - 1959 - 88 pages
...and mass of alpha particles, to Rutherford this was "about as credible as if you had fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you." This led him to abandon the idea that the particles making up an atom were evenly distributed throughout...
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Atomic Pioneers, Book 2

Ray Eldon Hiebert, Roselyn Hiebert - Physicists - 1971 - 100 pages
...charged alpha particle. Rutherford described this as "almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you". Rutherford went to Manchester University in 1909 and established a center for the study of radioactivity....
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Time and Frequency: Theory and Fundamentals

Byron Emerson Blair - Atomic frequency standards - 1974 - 482 pages
...event that has ever happened to me in my life. 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. On consideration, I realized that this scattering backward must be the result of a single collision, and when 1 made calculations...
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Crucibles: The Story of Chemistry from Ancient Alchemy to Nuclear Fission

Bernard Jaffe - Science - 1976 - 388 pages
...event that has ever happened to me in my life. It was ahnost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. Rutherford made some preliminary calculations and was convinced that one could not get any scattering...
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Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science: 13th ...

Rudrapatna K. Shyamasundar - Computers - 1993 - 476 pages
...event that ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. What threw the alpha particles back, what could stop particles rushing at 10,000 miles per second?...
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Front Page Physics: A Century of Physics in the News

A.J Meadows, M.M Hancock-Beaulieu - Science - 1994 - 248 pages
...surprised to find that some particles were actually reflected back by th« foil. 'It was', he said, 'almost as incredible as if you fired a 15 inch shell...piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you'. Trying to think how this observation could be explained ultimately led Rutherford, at the end of the...
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The Infamous Boundary: Seven Decades of Controversy in Quantum Physics

David Wick - Science - 1995 - 260 pages
...incredible event that happened to me in my life. 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! The "tissue paper" Rutherford referred to was the background of diffuse positive charge in the "minnows...
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A Complete Course in Certificate Physics

V. P. Bhatnagar - Science - 1996 - 250 pages
...most incredible event that ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you had fired a 15 inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you". He, therefore, argued that such large angle scattering of alpha panicles indicated the presence of...
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The Particle Hunters

Yuval Neʼeman, Yoram Kirsh - Science - 1996 - 324 pages
...(1913).) of his entire life. In his words: 'It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 1 5-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.' Why was Rutherford so astonished? According to Thomson's model, the density of matter should be practically...
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The Myth of the Framework: In Defence of Science and Rationality

Karl Raimund Popper - Philosophy - 1994 - 252 pages
...that has ever happened to me in my life. It was almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.' This remark of Rutherford's shows the utterly revolutionary character of the discovery. Rutherford...
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