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There Is No Likelihood Man Can Ever Tap The Power Of The Atom.
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There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923
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After this was written there appeared a remarkable posthumous memoir that throws some doubt on Millikan's leading role in these experiments.
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