No coincidence that Soddy was the discoverer of transmutation. Writing in the 1920s, before the fission chain reaction was conceived, he anticipated its potenti

No coincidence that Soddy was the discoverer of transmutation. Writing in the 1920s, before the fission chain reaction was conceived, he anticipated its potential "If ... there is at hand not merely in the remote stars, but at our feet, an unlimited source of energy of the order of a million times more powerful than any known, what tremendous social consequences await the discovery of artificial transmutation!"