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Science is all about asking questions and looking for logically consistent explanations of what is observed. But, more than simply the searching for and finding of answers, the quest of the scientist is never over. There is always another question that can be posed, and there is always a different way, perhaps a better way, of explaining an observation.
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A crocodile, in veneration of Rutherford, was carved into the wall of the Mond Laboratory building at Cambridge University, during its construction in 1933.
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Beech, M. (2010). The Story of Matter. In: The Large Hadron Collider. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-5668-2_1
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