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Rutherford and the Atom Poetic Portrayal of a Scientific Discovery

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  1. Times Literary Supplement, 153 (March 1, 1963).

  2. Rutherford and Other Poems (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1962). Rutherford was first published in Quadrant, 14, 30 (Sydney, 1960).

  3. Fitzgerald, R. D., The Elements of Poetry; Motif in the Work of Douglas Stewart (Univ. Queensland Press, 1963).

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  4. The Birdsville Track, and other Poems, 29 (Angus and Robertson, Sydney, 1955). The Birdsville Track was first published in The Bulletin, 18 (October 22, 1952).

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  1. Department of Veterinary Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane

    JOHN FRANCIS

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FRANCIS, J. Rutherford and the Atom Poetic Portrayal of a Scientific Discovery. Nature 199, 1028 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/1991028a0

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