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IN Nature of December 6, p. 776, an account was given of celebrations in London arranged by the Institute of Physics, the Physical Society, and the Institution of Electrical Engineers to mark the jubilee of the discovery of the electron by Sir J. J. Thomson in 1897. It is of interest to learn that the event was also remembered on the Continent. The Bernische Naturforschende Gesellschaft held a commemorative meeting in June 1947, with Dr. A. Kurz in the chair. An address was delivered by Prof. Andre Mercier ; as a professor of theoretical physics, he insisted especially on the great influence that the discovery of the electron has had since 1897 on physical theories, particularly under the impulse given by H. A. Lorentz, W. Pauli and P. A. M. Dirac.
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Jubilee of the Discovery of the Electron. Nature 161, 16 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161016a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/161016a0