Alphas Quote by Frederic Joliot-Curie

Some months ago we discovered that certain light elements emit positrons under the action of alpha particles. Our latest experiments have shown a very…

— Frederic Joliot-Curie

We have learnt through experience that when an electrical ray strikes the surface of an atom, an electron, and in some circumstances a second…

— Johannes Stark

We were on the dark side of the Earth when we started to see outside the window this soft pink glow, which is a…

— Robert Crippen

I'm positive I lost an electron, I better keep an ion that.

— Anonymous

The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most…

— Ernest Lawrence

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive…

— Johannes Stark

We can in fact first place the beam of rays of moving positive atomic ions in a plane perpendicular to the axis in which…

— Johannes Stark

“with offense—a high- bosomed matron opposite emitted”

— Beatrice Forbes-Robertson Hale

“radioactive Rubidium-87, containing 37 protons (and 50 neutrons), can change or decay to strontium, which has 38 protons. These two elements can be thought…

— Bill Nye

Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required…

— Ernest Lawrence

“Aluminum occupies nearly ten percent of Earth’s crust yet was unknown to the ancients and unfamiliar to our great-grandparents. The element was not isolated…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I get atomic, hypo-galactical... Word to mom, I'm in my own world. Galaxy rays? Powerful.

— Kool Keith