A Brief History of Atomic Energy, by Ernest Rutherford

In september salard read in the times about a speech by ernest rutherford, a nobel lariant and an expert in all things atomic. Rutherford dismissed the possibility of releasing atomic energy and said, anyone who looked for a source of power in the transformation of adams was talking moonshine. This english word is new to silard, but it gets under his skin. He knows exactly what it means, nonsense, rubbish, madness. And he was annoyed. In silard's mind, the wheels begin turning. The connections are made between the synapses long before the actual moment of realization. It must have been a feeling like having a word on the tip