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.
| Autorius: | Richard Reeves |
| Leidėjas: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2008 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 226 |
| ISBN-10: | 0393333698 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780393333695 |
| Formatas: | Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
| Žanras: | Biography: science, technology and medicine |
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