SPLITTING THE INVISIBLE.
SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENT. The splitting of the supposedly, indivisible element of hydrogen gas into two substances was demonstrated before the American Chemical Society, whose president, Dr. Hugh Taylor, of Princeton University, declared that it was the greatest scientific discovery this year. Dr. Bothhoeffer, the scientist responsible for the work, was a 17-years-old infantry-man in the front-line trenches when the war ended. Dramatically he set his proof before the eyes of chemists in a spot of light on the wall of the lecture-room.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 11
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84SPLITTING THE INVISIBLE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 249, 19 September 1929, Page 11
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