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“Should the research worker of the future discover some means of releasing this [atomic] energy in a form which could be employed, the human race will have at its command powers beyond the dream of scientific fiction, but the remotest possibility must always be considered that the energy once liberated will be completely uncontrollable and by its intense violence detonate all neighbouring substances. In this event, the whole of the hydrogen on earth might be transformed at once and the success of the experiment published at large to the universe as a new star.”

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Francis William Aston
Francis William Aston

Francis William Aston was a British chemist renowned for his contributions to mass spectrometry. He won the 1922 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for inventing the mass spectrometer and using it to study isotopes. Aston's research had a profound impact on the development of chemistry and physics. more

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