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MY task is to attempt to trace the history of the development of scientific evidence bear-ing on the question of the origin and destiny of the physical elements. I shall list ten discoveries or developments, all made within the past hundred years, which touch in one way or another upon this problem and constitute indications or sign-posts on the road toward an answer.
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MILLIKAN, R. Present Status of Theory and Experiment as to Atomic Disintegration and Atomic Synthesis.. Nature 127, 167–170 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127167a0
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