A Force of Nature: The Frontier Genius of Ernest Rutherford
- ISBN-10
- 039305750X
- ISBN-13
- 9780393057508
- Category
- Nuclear fission
- Pages
- 207
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Author
- Richard Reeves
Description
A scholarly profile of a leading twentieth-century experimental physicist covers such topics as his discovery of the atom's orbital structure and contributions to splitting the atom to his receipt of the Nobel Prize and other honors. 25,000 first printing.
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- 2008-12-17
- 208 pages
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- 2022-10-25
- 368 pages
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