atom smashing

So much for data and atom smashing.

He has spent much of his career searching for Neutrinos - the elusive sub-atomic particles created by the fusion of elements in stars like our sun - at the bottom of the ocean, and analysing the results of atom smashing experiments with the Large Hadron Collider at Cern in Geneva.

“He was involved from 1941, under the strictest secrecy, in St Georgen on SS research projects. He warned colleagues in letters that he was involved in ‘atom smashing’.”

The atom smashing experiment he designed gave us the basic structure of the atom.

A hundred years on another - admittedly somewhat more powerful atom smashing machine - the Large Hadron Collider stands poised to complete that picture with the discovery of the Higgs boson.