Excerpt from The Progress of Science: An Opening Address for the University of Manitoba, Delivered Thursday, October 17th, 1912
Another extremely important discovery in physics is that of the phenomenon of radio-activity, an entirely new property of matter, culminating in the isolation of radium, the conversion of one element into another, and the discovery of an enormous quantity of hitherto unsuspected energy stored up in the atom.
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