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Big experiments with hundreds of physicists and tens of organizations involved. The process for scientific grant application was minimal Discussion of JJ Thompson Rutherford's "discovery" of the atomic nucleus - it was considered an utter failure as nobody outside Manchester paid any attention. This was in 1911. Plagiarism in physics Quatenspringerei, anno 1913. 1928: quantum mechanics valid for the atomic nucleus Zur Quantentheorie des Atomkernes Yves G Gamow The neutron was discovered in the 1932. Chadwick thought that the elementary neutron 'had little to recommend it' The original neutron source. The Quantum Theory of the Electron by P.A.M. Dirac Quantised Singularities in the Electromagnetic Field by P.A.M. Dirac (antiparticles and magnetic monopoles) Dirac's relativistic wave equations leads formally to solutions with negative energy, which he interpreted as 'holes' in a 'sea' of negative energy electrons - and identified ...