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Which no one had ever suspected before. All the chemists went off into fits, Some of them thought they were losing their wits, When quite without warning (Their theories scorning) The atom one morning He broke into bits.

Alfred Robb

Here's a health to Professor J.J.! May he hunt for ions for many a day, And take observations And find the relations Which forces obey.

Alfred Robb

What's in an atom The innermost substratum? That's the problem he is working at today. He lately did discover How to shoot them down the player, And the poor little things can't get away. He uses as munitions On his hunting expeditions Alpha particles which out of Radium sprang.

Alfred Robb

A Corpuscle once did oscillate so quickly to and fro,
He always raised disturbances wherever he did go. He struggled hard for freedom against a powerful foe — An atom — who wouldn't let him go.

Alfred Robb

Alfred Robb

Alfred Robb

Born: January 18, 1873

Died: December 14, 1936 (aged 63)

Bio: Alfred Arthur Robb or Alfred A. Robb was a Northern Irish physicist.

Known for:

Geometry of Time and Space (1936)
The absolute relations of time and space (1921)
A theory of time and space (1913)

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