21st January

At our first meeting of term we will look at the rise and fall of the "solar system" model of atomic structure, as it was presented in the popular journal Scientific American. Copies of the selected readings are already available in the Whipple Library box file: please bring £1 to reimburse Daniel for the cost of photocopying to the first meeting.

• A. H. Compton, "What Is Matter Made Of?" (May 15, 1915, pp. 451-2).
• S. Dushman, "Beyond the Microscope" (June 1922, pp. 372-3).
• A. T. Merrick, "Solar Systems Inside the Atom" (February 1925, pp. 80-1).
• A. T. Merrick, "The Marvellous Speeds of Atomic Particles" (March 1925, p.301).
• P. R. Heyl, "What Is An Atom?" (July 1928, pp. 9-12).
• "Our Point of View: Whose Fault is It?" (November 1931, p. 299).

See you in the upstairs seminar room at Darwin College at 7.30pm!