在麦克斯韦的年代,实验在英国还被普遍看作一种低等的研究手段,连刚创立的《自然》杂志也怀疑。他的卡文迪许实验室是否能在10年内赶上德国人。但科学史会记住这个伟大的名字。在诺贝尔创立了他那著名奖金后仅仅4年,接替麦克斯韦担任实验室主任的瑞利男爵便被授予物理奖,成为这个实验室的第一位诺贝尔奖得主。之前不久,1897年,电子在此被汤姆逊发现,这使他当之无愧地拿到了1906年的物理奖。1919年,卢瑟福接过实验室的火炬.成为史上最为伟大的实验室主任:他在此18年直 In Maxwell’s time, experimentation was generally seen as a low-level research tool in the United Kingdom, and even the magazine Nature was founded on. Whether his Cavendish laboratory can catch up with Germans within 10 years. But the history of science will remember this great name. In just four years after Nobel founded his famous prize, Barry Rayleigh, succeeding Maxwell as a laboratory director, was awarded the Physics Prize and became the lab’s first Nobel laureate. Not long ago, in 1897, electrons were discovered here by Thomson, which deservedly won the 1906 Physics Prize. In 1919 Rutherford took over the laboratory torch and became the greatest laboratory director in history: