that the way science -- rutherford never had a patent in his life. the way science advanced was by open dissemination of information because you could bet there's some kid in new zealand who would read this and figure out the next step. and that's the kind of science i wanted to write about. when rutherford died, he died rather early. in the late '30s, his bank account was 7,000 pounds. which was exactly his own noble prize money in 1911. i'll end by talking about the -- the "new york times" once had a very brilliant science editor named comfort. and in 1936, he wrote what these people did. einstein, rutherford, bohr, clunk, the heroes of the heroic age of physics, and this is what he said they did. suppose that nobody on earth had ever a piece of music and then suppose that beethoven's fifth symphony is played over and over again by invisible mugs. the physicist problem is develop a apparatus that will sift out one note and analyze and infer what invisible instruments produce the sounds, deduce the rules in following determining what notes should be

rutherford never had a pageant in his life. the way science advances is when it opened dissemination of reformation he was thinking somebody in new zealand would read this and that would take the next up. that is the kind of science i wanted to write about. when rutherford it died, he died rather early in the late thirties, his bank account was 7,000 pounds which was exactly his own nobel prize money in the 1911. "the new york times" one said they bury brilliant science editor. in 1936 he wrote, what these people did, einstein, rutherford, ise nberg, the heroes of the heroic age of physics and this is what he said they did in. >> suppose that nobody on earth had ever heard a piece of music then suppose beethoven fifth symphony is played over and over by invisible musicians. the physicist problem is to devise an apparatus that will polled one note from another and analyze it with invisible instruments that produce the sound, produce the rules and follow in what order it be played and how long it power of labour code is not likel

i did it with my kids but if anybody did it there are museums where rutherford talked and at cambridge. the amazing thing about them is that most of his experiments are about this size. they look like music boxes or something. the reasons he was a great teacher was not because he had great rhetorical skills but because he connected math with something that you saw work. the simplest example is the way friction is taught so math in the abstract is very difficult. i had not thought about the question but as part of the answer i feel for better or worse but i think for better is we do not have to train mathematicians as much anymore it in our society because they are being replaced by mathematicians from korea, india, up. i teach at usc down the road. and the engineering school and the mass and the biological sciences as well, are very, very heavily asian americans of that like many things in america, we have outsourced math. we know the people on wall street cannot account worth a. [laughter] >> living people verses dead people for lack of a better word you have any thoughts on that? ver

snow was also a student of rutherford's at cambridge and they were friends and there was going to the dinner at the house together of the head of the english department and snow was talking about how brilliant this man was and what he had written and interpreted. rutherford was extremely well read and said, yes i know he is but don't you sometimes wonder or wish that he knew what it would press a button at the front of the house a bell rings in the back. [laughter] >> with that our time is up. please chime in thanking the panel. [applause] >> for more information on the los angeles times vessel of books and visit l.a. times.com/extras/festival books. >> annelise and martin anderson used formerly classified documents to contended that ronald reagan believed the destruction of nuclear weapons was tantamount in achieving his goal to bring an end to the soviet union the ronald reagan presidential library in simi valley, california hosted this event. it is 25 minutes. >> [applause] >> hello, i was just thinking in has now been about 34 years finally when i first met ronald reagan and we al

ernest rutherford was a great, was really the transition figure of that but we grew up all of us in thism i think, where he could own an automobile and if it broke down you could open the hood and figure out what was wrong and try to fix it. you worked on a typewriter, which if it broke you could fix it with a paper clip. now you don't have the faiz then god knows what goes on inside a computer. so that we really have not developed the cadre of people who can write about this new science, and most publishers start with the prejudice that unless it is abraham lincoln and the atomic bomb, no one is interested. >> who is next? >> good afternoon. first of all want to say that i almost feel like i know you personally. i have been keeping up with a whole bunch of stuff over the years. i was a young college student at the time. >> thank you. >> you are very welcome. [laughter] you did a great job on that by the way and also in the documentary w.e.b. dubois, in my personal opinion is an excellent. i wanted to ask you how would you feel one of about ida b. wells and bishop henry, of being the pre

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rutherford, she is gone now but she is sane. i don't know how the new readers and "roads to quoz" will have over the years but i cannot get by a much longer so he told me, pass the word. the third point* and this i have heard ever since the two but especially the last three books with prairie earth and "river horse" and now "roads to quoz" you like this or you don't but if you don't like it is easier to ignore it and go past it. some of you know, what i am talking about one, vocabulary, let me say it this way, as speakers of english, american english we have the largest vocabulary on the planet earth. the largest vocabulary 400,000 words. i do not know how they count los. i do not know if for a sample use a run is another running is that the same word, runner, ran, you get the idea. i read this several times more than 400,000 words, shakespeare used about 30,000 and i do not know how you count those. i counted my own, my computer did and i know my account and i will not tell you because i am embarrassed even with all the words m

i think, to dramatize rutherford 's life, i don't know and i would have to read a lot more. you would have to read richard's book. i know that i trace them back, they live in very, very modest homes in brooklyn. the whitman family were a family of carpenters that built that houses. the father, walt, george all build houses and sold them and they lived in these very small dwellings. a lot of questions have arisen about, to the family note that walt was what we would now call? that were did not exist in the 19th century. of course there had been a long scholarship denying that some walt whitman was. i discovered that he had a very active love life while he was a nurse, but i got back to, i actually needed to understand how big the house's work, how they were built and the walls with up that. the rooms were quite close. and walt in the period of 18583 teen 60 lived with another man in his mother's house. every night they wind up together to the same bedroom so the idea that they did not know what was going on was unthinkable. once i saw that, it is the human drama. i can see th