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“his simplicity confidence”; “a surprising kinship”: Ibid., p. 34.

“It would legitimate”: Ibid., p. 35.

“little queen”: Letter from M. Curie to M. Sklodovski of 10 November 1897, quoted in E. Curie, Madame Curie, p. 158.

“x-ray proof underwear”: E. Larsen, The Cavendish Laboratory, p. 31.

“I hear rays”: M. J. Nye, Before Big Science, p. 148.

“We do not… in toto!”: Punch, 25 January 1896.

“the unconscious…genius”; “shining out… background”: W Crookes, Proceedings of the Royal Society, Obituary Notices of Fellows Deceased, A. 83, xxii, 1909-10.

“much excited study of it”: M. Curie, Pierre Curie, p. 89.

“The element…find it”: E. Curie, Madame Curie, p. 166.

“with passionate substance “: Ibid., p. 167.

“must be enormous”: Paper of 26 December 1898 presented to the French Academy of Sciences.

“one of us”; “radioactivity property”: Ibid.

“miserable old shed”: M. Curie, Pierre Curie, p. 92.

“extremely handicapped personnel”: Ibid., p. 47.

“sometimes. radium”: Ibid., p. 92.

“our precious… enchantment”: Ibid., p. 49.

“Are our bicycles… oil”: H. C. Bolton quoted in L. Badash, Scientists and the Development of Nuclear Weapons, p. 17.

“butterfly wings of radium”: E. Curie, Madame Curie, p. 243.

“Madame burns”: Ibid., p. 207.

“That’s dig”: Quoted in A. S. Eve, Rutherford, p. 11.

“would have been… mathematics”: Quoted in A. Brown, The Neutron and the Bomb, P. 45

“in a few years… poured”: Maxwell’s inaugural lecture of 25 October 1871 is in manuscript, CUL, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell, vol. 2, p. 241.

“a most radiating smile”: Letter from Rutherford to Mary Newton of 2 December 1896, printed in Eve, Rutherford, p. 41.

“not fossilised at all”: Letter from Rutherford to Mary Newton of 3 October 1895, printed in ibid., p. 15.

“We’ve got… mighty deep”: A. Balfour quoted in ibid., p. 14.

“jolly almost see them”: Quoted in ibid., p. 43.

“my usual… self-consciousness”: Letter from Rutherford to M. Newton of 2c January 1896, printed in ibid., p. 25.

“he gave I abhor”: Letter from E. Rutherford to M. Newton of May 1986, printed in ibid., p. 35.

“the alarming our dips”: Letter from E. Rutherford to M. Newton of 10 April 1 896, printed in ibid., p. 32.

“the assumption… startling one”: J. J. Thomson’s lecture to the Royal Institution on 30 April 1897.

“pulling their legs”: J. J. Thomson, Recollections and Refections, p. 341.

“to do… Yankees!”: E. Rutherford’s letter to M. Newton of 30 July 1898, printed in Eve, Rutherford, p. 54.

“to find the theory of matter”; “before anyone else. warpath”: E. Rutherford’s letter to M. Newton of 25 January 1896, quoted in A. Pais, Inward Bound, p. 39.

“the best sprinters”: E. Rutherford’s letter to his mother of 5 January 1902, printed in Eve, Rutherford, p. 80.

“a good research work”: E. Rutherford’s letter to M. Newton of August 1 896, printed in ibid., p. 39.

“in the Rutherford household suspicion”: O. Hahn, My Life, p. 73.

“in a geometrical progression with time”: Philosophical Magazine, January 1900.

“an indefatigable and important”: Frederick Soddy papers, Bodleian Library.

“standing there. thing”; “Rutherford argon gas”; “shouted. alchemists”: Quoted in M. Howorth, Pioneer Research and the Atom — the Life Story of Frederick Soddy, pp. 83—84.

“incurable suicide mania”: Quoted in Nye, Before Big Science, p. 156.

“playful suggestion”; “a wave… smoke”: Letter from Sir William Dampier to Rutherford of 26 July 1903, printed in Eve, Rutherford, p. 102.

“Marie rejected… times ahead”: All quotes in this paragraph are from E. Curie, Madame Curie, pp. 231–33.

“I wish… work”: Quoted in D. Wilson, Rutherford, p. 241.

“I see… apparatus”: Quoted in J. Campbell, Rutherford: Scientist Supreme, pp. 343–44.

“almost as incredible… hit you”: Chadwick’s Rutherford Memorial Lecture, 1944, Proceedings of the Royal Society.

“Go home.my boy”: Quoted in Eve, Rutherford, p. 152.

“obviously in the best of spirits”; “he now looked like”: H. Geiger in J. Chadwick, ed., The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford, p. 297.

“most shattering”: J. Chadwick’s oral history, AIP.

“child”; “nourished and educated”: Letter from E. Ramstedt to M. Curie of 14 December 1911, quoted in M. F. Rayner-Canham and G. W. Rayner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 21.

“very wan… figure”: E. Rutherford’s letter to his mother of 14 October 1910, printed in Eve, Rutherford, p. 191.

“It was … under one”: Quoted in Pais, Inward Bound, p. 134.

“The solution came to me suddenly”: Quoted in D. Brian, Einstein — A Life, p. 61.

“quietly… unity”: Snow, Variety of Men, p. 75.

“witches’ sabbath”: Quoted in Pflaum, Grand Obsession, p. 160.

“much time”; “just… people”; “passionateness”; “sparkling intelligence”: S. Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 302.

“Madame Curie… being a woman”; “in the… person”: Letter from E. Rutherford to B. Boltwood of 20 November 1911, printed in L. Badash, ed., Rutherford and Bohwood — Letters on Radioactivity, pp. 257—58.

“purefantasy”: Quoted in Pflaum, Grand Obsession, p. 164.

“plodder”… “working… man”: M. F. Ravner-Canham and G. W Ravner-Canham, A Devotion to Their Science, p. 45.

“something winter”: Quoted in ibid., p. 168.

“odious blackmail”: Quoted in Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 299.

“the Vestal Virgin of radium”; “an ambitious Pole… Langevins”: Pflaum, Grand Obsession, p. 174-42. “ It’s idiotic.do it”: Quinn, Marie Curie, p. 323.

“The defence brain”: Pflaum, Grand Obsession, p. 177.

“Madame… like”: M. Klein et al., eds., Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, vol. 5, p. 544 (author’s translation).

“made sense”; “pompous talk”: R. Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 39.

“Of course not… in it”: Quoted in Pais, Inward Bound, p. 210.

“the most… met”: Moore, Niels Bohr, p. 44.

“It is… possible”: Letter from E. Rutherford to N. Bohr of 25 March 1913, CUL/R.

“big eyes discoveries”: Quoted in Nye, Before Big Science, p. 170.

“to give up true”: O. Frisch, What Little I Remember, p. 93.

“slightly superficial, easy-going”: Hahn, My Life, p. 37.