Obama’s slip is showing again: Gets history of atom wrong in big speech « The Greenroom: "Only it wasn’t Americans who “unlocked the mystery of the atom.” There were multiple scientists from several cultures involved in identifying the particles that make up the atom, but none of them were American. G. Johnstone Stoney, the physicist who first postulated a minimum unit of electrical charge (which he called the electron) was an Englishman of Irish descent. J. J. Thomson, the man who confirmed Stoney’s conjecture, was also a Brit. Other scientists contributed to our understanding of subatomic particles and their role in the overall structure of the atom and include Ernest Rutherford, James Chadwick, Wolfgang Pauli—a New Zealander, another Englishman, and an Austrian, respectively."
Obama ignorant of history again. Smartest man in the room.
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