Камчатка=Kamchatka. The Vanishing World

His greatest breakthrough came because he was prepared to spend immensely tedious hours sitting at a screen counting alpha particle scintillations, as they were known-the sort of work that would normally have been farmed out. He was one of the first to see-possibly the very first-that the power inherent in the atom could, if harnessed, make bombs powerful enough to БЂњmake this old world vanish in smoke.БЂ«Physically he was big and booming, with a voice that made the timid shrink. Once when told that Rutherford was about to make a radio broadcast across the Atlantic, a colleague drily asked: БЂњWhy use radio?БЂ«He also had a huge amount of good-natured confidence. When someone remarked to him that he seemed always to be at the crest of a wave, he responded, БЂњWell, after all, I made the wave, didnБЂ™t I?БЂ«C. P. Snow recalled how once in a Cambridge tailorБЂ™s he overheard Rutherford remark: БЂњEvery day I grow in girth. And in mentality.БЂ«But both girth and fame were far ahead of him in 1895 when he fetched up at the Cavendish.[20] It was a singularly eventful period in science ...»