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Pure and applied sciences benefit humanity

by Peter Dear

AN apocryphal story sometimes heard among physicists concerns a toast, proposed by his Cambridge University colleagues, to J. J. Thomson's discovery of the electron in 1897: "To the electron: may it never be of use...

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