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Item Details
| Title:
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A FORCE OF NATURE
THE FRONTIER GENIUS OF ERNEST RUTHERFORD |
| By: |
Richard Reeves |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£18.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0393333698 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780393333695 |
| Publisher: |
WW NORTON & CO |
| Pub. date: |
16 December, 2008 |
| Series: |
Great Discoveries |
| Pages: |
208 |
| Description: |
In this new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the 20th centurys greatest experimental physicist, Reeves portrays a ruddy, genial man who was also a towering figure in scientific history. |
| Synopsis: |
Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials. 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. In Richard Reeves's hands, Rutherford comes alive, a ruddy, genial man and a pivotal figure in scientific history. |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
WW Norton & Co |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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