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A force of nature : the frontier genius of Ernest Rutherford

By Ernest , Reeves , Richard; Rutherford , Ernest; Rutherford

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Year
2008
ISBN
978-0-393-07604-2, 0393076040
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
224 kB (229657 bytes)
Series
Great discoveries
Edition
First edition
Pages
207\0
Time added
2017-08-15 11:00:00
-- 1871-1937.;Physicists -- England -- Biography.;ErnestErnest.;Physicists.;Science.;England.;New Zealand.Rutherford

Description

Overview: Ernest Rutherford, who grew up in colonial New Zealand and came to Cambridge on a scholarship, made numerous revolutionary discoveries, among them the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the “half-life” of radioactive materials, which led to a massive reevaluation of the age of the earth—previously judged just 100 million years old. Above all, perhaps, Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces—forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb.

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