Nature Releases Second Archive

摘要

Noted science weekly magazine Nature is now offering a second archive, this one containing the full contents from its first 80 years (1869-1949). According to the publication, the archive, which boasts more than 4000 issues and an estimated 180,000 articles, reveals "a wealth of treasures," including the first observation of X-rays (Wilhelm Roentgen, 1896), the discovery of the electron (J.J. Thomson, 1897), the first fossil evidence that humans originated in Africa (Raymond Dart, 1925), and the discovery of the neutron (James Chadwick, 1932).