Ernest Rutherford's Ambitions | Physics Today

“In the early 20th century, the most important physics laboratories in the world were concentrated in Europe; by comparison, North American institutions were scrappy upstarts at best and irrelevant backwaters at worst. Rutherford felt isolated and frustrated by his distance from the centers of the physics world.”

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