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Wolfgang Pauli, in 1931, had found that atomic theory required the existence of the chargeless and massless particle that Enrico Fermi later named the neutrino. The next year James Chadwick, working at the Cavendish Laboratory in England, discovered the neutron. Two more long steps into the hazardous mysteries of the atom.
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© 1982 Jack Williamson
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Williamson, J. (1982). The Way it Was, 1933–1937. In: Jakubowski, M., James, E. (eds) The Profession of Science Fiction. Insights. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22143-1_2
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