Mass Attack On The Atom: New Wonder Laboratory -- Prof. Kapitsa in his study in the New Royal Society Mond Laboratory at Cambridge. The Ludwig Mond Laboratory, where Prof. Kapitsa, the noted Russian Scientist will carry out atomic research, will be opened at Cambridge tomorrow Feb 3 by Mr. Stanley Baldwin. The new building cost ?15,000, and apparatus which will split the atom, on a scale unknown before, has been installed. March 21, 1933. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).