The How and Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy

Description

Big ideas sometimes deal with very small things, and small things are often exceedingly important. Witness the atom. Scientists have had some of their biggest ideas about these tiny particles of matter. Their ideas about atoms have changed as discoveries have brought new information into the picture. The How and Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy takes the science-minded reader along the exciting road of discovery about the atom that led to the first use of atomic energy in a controlled way, and tells how people from many countries made scientific contributions. The life-blood of scientific activity is in exploring all parts of the universe — even the tiny parts represented by atoms — and explaining the events that take place. Though individual atoms cannot be seen, they are the basis of all matter. And in the search for more information about atoms, scientists gradually came upon new knowledge about the energy within. This book tells this wonderful story. Parents and schools will want to place The How and Why Wonder Book of Atomic Energy alongside the other books in this series. It not only brings the young reader up to date on the development of atomic energy, but challenges one to think about the yet-to-come atomic age of the future.