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THE Faraday Soeiety's conferenee on “The tronie Theory of Valeney,” held at Cambridge on July i˜ and 14, may be regarded as marking a new stage in the welding togéther of physies and chemistry, whieh has been so notable a feature of the recent history of these two sciences. The conference was attended by about 120 delegates from different universities, about half of whom were drawn from outside Cambridge. Some forty visitors were entertained in Trinity Hall, through the kindness of the master and fellows, to whom a deep debt of gratitude is due f or eontributing in this way to the pleasant sociai features of the conferenee. The foreign guests included Prof. G. N. Lewis, Prof. W. A. Noyes, Prof. Lymam and Prof. Vietor Henri of Zurich; the physicists included Sir J. J. Thomson, Sir Ernest Rutherford, Sir William Bragg, Prof. Barton, Prof. W. L. Bragg, Prof. Porter, Prof. Rankine, Dr. F. W. Aston, and Mr. R. H. Fowler; the ehemists, in addition to Sir Robert Robertson, the president of the Faraday Soeiety, included Sir William Pope, Prof. Heilbron, Prof. Lapworth, Prof. Lowry, Prof. Robinson, Prof. Smithells, Prof. Thorpe, Mr. C. R. Bury, Dr. Flurseheim, Dr. W. E. Garner, ˜Dr. Henstock, Dr. Kenner, Mr. W. H. Mills, Mr. E. K. Rideal, and Dr. NIV. Sidgwiek.
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The Electron in Relation to Chemistry. Nature 112, 179–181 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112179a0
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