Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!chongo From: chongo@nsc.UUCP (Landon C. Noll) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Lord Rutherford on alpha particles Message-ID: <739@nsc.UUCP> Date: Wed, 7-Mar-84 21:44:56 EST Article-I.D.: nsc.739 Posted: Wed Mar 7 21:44:56 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Mar-84 08:22:13 EST Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale Lines: 9 "After working with alpha particles for over 30 years, it's funny to be told that the alpha particle is an illusion. I don't mind so long as I am allowed to have my illusion concentrated in a very small space!" Lord Rutherford - 1927 chongo/\OO/\