And the three authors of that book were all teaching at Cambridge. Lord Rutherford, a two-time winner of the Nobel Prize, was in charge of the renowned Cavendish physics lab, in which there was also J.J. Thomson, the discoverer of the electron; Sir James Chadwick, the discoverer of the neutron; and Sir John Cockcroft and E.T.S.
而這本書的三位作者，當時都任教劍橋，其中得過兩次諾貝爾獎的核子物理學家魯瑟夫德（Lord Rutherford）教授，正是劍橋最著名的物理實驗室﹘﹘愷文第詩﹘﹘的主任講座教授。