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The Ether and Electrons

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PRELIMINARY. I HAVE been asked to speak on possibilities of research in pure physics, and I rejoice that attention has always been paid to the vital importance of pure science in an Institution the backbone of the work of which must be of a metrical character connected with industrial applications, and much of it necessarily subject to routine.

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  2. Cf. Jetter in NATURE, May 26, 1923, p. 702.

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LODGE, O. The Ether and Electrons. Nature 112, 185–192 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112185a0

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