9780195123784
Ernest Rutherford: And The Explosion Of Atoms (Oxford Portraits In Science) - J. L. Heilbron
Oxford University Press, USA (2003)
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Physicists - Biography, Nuclear physics - History - Juvenile literature, Physicists, Scientists, Nuclear physics - History, Nobel Prizes - Biography

An engaging biography that captures the excitement of the early days of nuclear physics, Ernest Rutherford tells the story of the down-to-earth New Zealander who became one of the foremost pioneers of subatomic physics. Rutherford's achievements were numerous and included:
* Inventing a detector for electromagnetic waves
* Discovering the existence of alpha and beta rays in uranium radiation
* Creating (with Frederick Soddy) the "disintegration theory" of radioactivity, which regards radioactive phenomena as atomic -- not molecular -- processes
* Demonstrating that the inner structures of elements correspond with a group of lines that characterize them, which could then be assigned an atomic number and, more important, the properties of each element could be defined by this number
* And his greatest contribution of all - he discovered that the atom had a nucleus and that it contained the positively charged proton
From his early days as a scholarship student to the end of his life as he continued to work in his lab, Ernest Rutherford reveals the life and times of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century.

Product Details
LoC Classification QC16.R8 .H45 2003
Dewey 539.7092
Format Hardcover
Cover Price 32,95 €
No. of Pages 144
Height x Width 242 x 171 mm
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