Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford

Name: Force of Nature The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
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ISBN: 9780393057508

ISBN-10: 039305750X

ISBN-13: 9780393057508

Edition: 2008

Authors: Richard Reeves

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A new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the twentieth century's greatest experimental physicist. 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 earthpreviously 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 forcesforces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb. Rutherford, awarded a Nobel Prize…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/17/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Richard Reeves is a syndicated columnist and teaches at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California. He lives in Washington, D.C. and New York.