When the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, no one was more appreciative of the scientific achievement involved than a shy, balding Japanese physicist named Hideki Yukawa. At the time ...

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 178, No. 974 (Jul. 31, 1941), pp. 314-350 (37 pages) An exact classical theory of the motion of a point ...

THIS second edition differs from the first (reviewed in Nature 160, 418 ; 1947) only in a few short sections, where instead of older experiments some more recent ones are discussed (concerning the ...

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In July a colloquium was held at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies at which the following lecturers each gave a, short course of lectures: Prof. C. Møller (Copenhagen), Prof. J. L. Synge ...