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N NIKSS1-.R BERNARD MYERS S'I'EB1iL'l'0X H. XL'LLli Professor of Hfslury. Dwm of llrmlrmlr' Srlmol, .11SSfSfIlIlf P!4IIvfl'.Y.YfJIn in Fim' girls IllSfT1lf'f0T in History Chairman gf depqyfmgnf BS., New York Ul1iVClASilY, 1928: A.M., New All.. Ohio SIZIIC, 1922: AAI., C0l11111lmi:1 .Y.B.. Pc1111sylvz111i:1. 1909: AAI.. l'CllIlSYIX2llliTl. York l'lliY6l'SilY, 1929: Pl1.D., New York Ph,D.. Pe1111syl1'a11ia. 19gO 1910: l'h.D., PC1111w1l1z111ia1. 1912 l'11i1'c1'sil1'. 1933 CH,-YRLES K. PAYNF ROY Y. PEEL C1H.YRLO'1 l'E H. PEKXRY .-lssislrznl Pr0fz'.s.1'or' of Mrlllzemnlirs .4S.S'fSl!Il1l Profzzssm' of fi0Ul?I'IlIHl'Ilt .4.s.vislar1t Ilf0ff SSU7' of Gffrnmn YB.. Nclmmskzl. 1903: NI.B..Y.. New York Uni- .-X.l5,. .X11g11sl:111I, 19211: AAI.. Chicago, 1923: .-LB.. Cornell. 1913: AAI.. CIo1'11clI. 1910 P1113 xersity Pl1.D.. Chicago, 1927 Clornell. 1925 f 1 S 3 1 1QI.l..X 'If RISKIQ FRANK O. Rl'l l'liR HRNST ROSE .'i5.s'i.m1r1I in Iiuglislz lII.5f!'llf'f0l' in Clzvnzislry ,issistalzl Pl'il,-I'.S.S'1J!' of CQITIIIIIII 1-Y.B.,XY:1al1i11q1o11 l'11i1'c1'silx'. 1922: .Y.NI..YYz1sl1A .-Y.lS.. Clomcll. lKjl1Q AAI., Col11111hia, 1916: 1'h.D. Leipzig, llj22 Y ington l'11iVe1'sily, IQEZZ ' A ll1.lJ.. Now York 'lT11ive1'sily, 1929 K k K

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IV The Field of Physics In attempting to assess the trend of the physics -of the day, it is an aid to look at the physics of the years just passed. To the physicists of the early twentieth century, particularly the school of Rutherford in England, belongs the credit of establishing the fact that atoms at their centers, are com- posed of nuclei, around which are circulating electrons. The nuclei were found to be charged with positive electricity, to contain all but one twentieth of a per cent of the mass of the atom, to be about one hundred-thou- sandth the size of the atom, and to increase in charge and mass as one passes to higher atomic numbers in the periodic table. The electrons are still smaller, are extremely light. making up the remaining one twentieth per cent of the atomic weight, have all the same weight and all the same electric charge, but negative. and move around the peripheral portions of the atom. It remained for Niels Bohr of Copen- hagen to discover the fundamental empirical laws which govern the behavior of electrons in atoms and of nuclei considered as single particles, that is, as small structureless enti- ties. ln considering, then, how it was possible for the moving electrons to obey these funda- mental laws, Bohr found that it was necessary to impose a severe restriction on the laws of motion developed by Newton, the so-called Newtonian Mechanicsf, which are certainly completely verified for bodies large enough to 28 be seen, and heavy enough to weigh on micro- balances. By the end of the Iirst quarter of the cen- tury, the Bohr laws had been so extended by the physicists of lVestern Europe and the United States that a complete theory of the Periodic Table of all the elements in Nature was developed. At the same time accumula- tion of work in this period brought out clearly that the restriction on Newtonian mechanics were inadequate for a formulation of the cor- rect laws of electronic and nuclear motions. Beginning, then, with the work of de Broglie in France, Heisenberg and Schrodinger in Ger- many, and Dirac in England a new theory of motions of light-weight particles developed, the quantum mechanics, one of the great revolutions in human thinking. The accom- plishments of this theory were so remarkable and rapid that one can say that by about 1930 all fundamental problems in atomic structure were solved. One of the important successes of the quantum theory was the explanation of how two atoms can unite to form a mole- cule, it is curious to realize that up to less than ten years ago, we had no understanding whatever of this, probably the most funda- mental problem of chemistry. There is a host of problems arising from the quantum theory of molecular formation whose solutions are yet to be found, physicists and chemists are working together on these problems, which certainly constitute one of