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Ernest Rutherford: a Short Biography

Author : Doug West
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792141225
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Rutherford: a Short Biography written by Doug West and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the movies we often see a scientist portrayed as a quiet and pious man or woman dressed in a white lab coat engrossed in deep thought. This image surely fits some; however, not the twentieth-century New Zealander Ernest Rutherford, or Lord Rutherford as he would be known later in life. He was born into a large family living in the frontier country of New Zealand with the nearest town thirteen miles away by horseback. This young man would earn a scholarship and travel to Great Britain to study at the world-famous Cambridge University. There this boisterous country boy would come into his own in the hallowed halls of Cambridge and study under one of Europe's most prominent scientists, J.J. Thomson. Over his long and fruitful career as a physicist, he would create the science we call today nuclear physics, thus shattering the concept of the atom that had held sway since the time of the ancient Greek philosophers. In his time, Rutherford was considered the greatest experimental physicist in the British Empire. No other experimentalist had been such a pivotal figure in science since Michael Faraday, the discoverer of electromagnetic induction."Ernest Rutherford: A Short Biography" reveals the life and times of one of the greatest scientific minds of the twentieth-century 30-Minute Book Series This is the 34th book in the 30-Minute Book Series. Books in this series are fast-paced, accurate, and cover the story in as much detail as a short book possibly can. Most people complete each book in less than an hour, which makes the books in the series a perfect companion for your lunch hour or a little down time. About the Author Doug West is a retired engineer and an experienced non-fiction writer with several books to his credit. His writing interests are general, with special expertise in history, science, biographies, and "How To" topics. Doug has a Ph.D. in General Engineering from Oklahoma State University.

A Force of Nature

Author : Richard Reeves
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057508
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book A Force of Nature written by Richard Reeves and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Great Physicists

Author : William H. Cropper
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199832080
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Great Physicists written by William H. Cropper and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-16 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a lively history of modern physics, as seen through the lives of thirty men and women from the pantheon of physics. William H. Cropper vividly portrays the life and accomplishments of such giants as Galileo and Isaac Newton, Marie Curie and Ernest Rutherford, Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, right up to contemporary figures such as Richard Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann, and Stephen Hawking. We meet scientists--all geniuses--who could be gregarious, aloof, unpretentious, friendly, dogged, imperious, generous to colleagues or contentious rivals. As Cropper captures their personalities, he also offers vivid portraits of their great moments of discovery, their bitter feuds, their relations with family and friends, their religious beliefs and education. In addition, Cropper has grouped these biographies by discipline--mechanics, thermodynamics, particle physics, and others--each section beginning with a historical overview. Thus in the section on quantum mechanics, readers can see how the work of Max Planck influenced Niels Bohr, and how Bohr in turn influenced Werner Heisenberg. Our understanding of the physical world has increased dramatically in the last four centuries. With Great Physicists, readers can retrace the footsteps of the men and women who led the way.

The Neutron and the Bomb

Author : Andrew Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Neutron and the Bomb written by Andrew Brown and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974), the discoverer of the neutron and Nobel Laureate. His central role in the unfolding drama of nuclear physics is reflected in his publications and correspondence with other leading figures like Bohr and Rutherford. Chadwick'sresearches in radioactivity began as an 18-year old student, and culminated within four years with the observation of the continuous beta-spectrum - a finding which caused long and furious debate, In the 1920s, Chadwick rose to be the operations director of the Cavendish Laboratory underRutherford's leadership. The discovery of the neutron came from an intense burst of work in 1932, after a decade of disappointment. While he changed the course in science, Chadwick's life was moulded by great events. In 1914 he was studying with Geiger in Berlin and spent the next four years in a remarkable internment camp. In the Second World War, he became Britain's foremost authority on the atomic bomb, and her chiefscientist on the Manhattan Project. His voluminous correspondence gives a unique feeling of the tensions of those years, both for scientists and politicians. Chadwick's profound influence on atomic policy continued after the war, his career ended with the controversial mastership of a Cambridgecollege. This biography draws on Chadwick's extensive correspondence with many of the leading scientists of his day, and offers a fascinating insight into the life and work of the man who discovered the neutron.

The Newer Alchemy

Author : Ernest Rutherford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107440424
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Newer Alchemy written by Ernest Rutherford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-04 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1937, this book discusses the contributions that the study of radiation can make to the problem of elemental transmutation.

The Structure of the Atom

Author : Edward Neville da Costa Andrade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of the Atom written by Edward Neville da Costa Andrade and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Big Science

Author : Michael Hiltzik
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451675763
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Big Science written by Michael Hiltzik and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heroic time -- South Dakota boy -- "I'm going to be famous" -- Shims and sealing wax -- Oppie -- The deuton affair -- The cyclotron republic -- John Lawrence's mice -- Laureate -- Mr. Loomis -- "Ernest, are you ready?" -- The racetrack -- Oak Ridge -- The road to Trinity -- The postwar bonanza -- Oaths and loyalties -- The shadow of the Super -- Livermore -- The Oppenheimer affair -- The return of small science -- The "clean bomb" -- Element 103.

Chemistry, 1901-1921

Author :
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9789810234058
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Chemistry, 1901-1921 written by and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the Nobel Lectures delivered by the prizewinners in chemistry, together with their biographies, portraits and the presentation speeches.

Michael Faraday

Author : Colin A. Russell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195117638
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Michael Faraday written by Colin A. Russell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Faraday (1791-1867), the son of a blacksmith, described his education as "little more than the rudiments of reading, writing, and arithmetic at a common day-school." Yet from such basics, he became one of the most prolific and wide-ranging experimental scientists who ever lived. As a bookbinder's apprentice with a voracious appetite for learning, he read every book he got his hands on. In 1812 he attended a series of chemistry lectures by Sir Humphry Davy at London's prestigious Royal Institution. He took copious and careful notes, and, in the hopes of landing a scientific job, bound them and sent them to the lecturer. Davy was impressed enough to hire the 21-year-old as a laboratory assistant.In his first decade at the Institution, Faraday discovered benzene, isobutylene, and two chlorides of carbon. But despite these and other accomplishments in chemistry, he is chiefly remembered for his work in physics. In 1831 he proved that magnetism could generate an electric current, thereby establishing the field of electromagnetism and leading to the invention of the dynamo. In addition to his extraordinary scientific activities, Faraday was a leader in his church, whose faith and wish to serve guided him throughout his career. An engaging public speaker, he gave popular lectures on scientific subjects, and helped found a tradition of scientific education for children and laypeople that continues to this day.Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements

Author : Ernest Rutherford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Natural and Artificial Disintegration of the Elements written by Ernest Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Atom (Icon Science)

Author : Piers Bizony
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785782169
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Atom (Icon Science) written by Piers Bizony and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2017-05-04 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riddled with jealousy, rivalry, missed opportunities and moments of genius, the history of the atom's discovery is as bizarre, as capricious, and as weird as the atom itself. John Dalton gave us the first picture of the atom in the early 1800s. Almost 100 years later the young misfit New Zealander, Ernest Rutherford, showed the atom consisted mostly of space, and in doing so overturned centuries of classical science. It was a brilliant Dane, Neils Bohr, who made the next great leap - into the incredible world of quantum theory. Yet, he and a handful of other revolutionary young scientists weren't prepared for the shocks Nature had up her sleeve. This 'insightful, compelling' book ( New Scientist) reveals the mind-bending discoveries that were destined to upset everything we thought we knew about reality and unleash a dangerous new force upon the world. Even today, as we peer deeper and deeper into the atom, it throws back as many questions at us as answers.

Gregor Mendel, and the Roots of Genetics

Author : Edward Edelson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195122267
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Gregor Mendel, and the Roots of Genetics written by Edward Edelson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gregor Mendel passed away in 1884, not a single scholar recognized his epochal contributions to biology. The unassuming abbot of the Augustinian monastery in Brno (in today's Czech Republic) was rediscovered at the turn of the century when scientists were stunned to learn that their findings about inheritance had already been made by an unknown monk three decades earlier. A dedicated researcher who spent every spare hour in the study of the natural sciences, Mendel devised a series of brilliantly simple experiments using a plant easily grown on the monastery's grounds--the garden pea. In the course of just a few years he made the famous discoveries that later became the centerpiece of the science of heredity. In an entertaining and thoroughly informed narrative, Edward Edelson traces Mendel's life from his humble origins to his posthumous fame, giving us both a brief introduction to the fascinating science of genetics and an inspired account of what a modest man can accomplish with dedication and ingenuity. Oxford Portraits in Science is an ongoing series of scientific biographies for young adults. Written by top scholars and writers, each biography examines the personality of its subject as well as the thought process leading to his or her discoveries. These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.

Ernest Rutherford

Author : J. L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195123786
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Ernest Rutherford written by J. L. Heilbron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-06-12 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 protonFrom 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.

Rutherford

Author : John Campbell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (939 download)

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Download or read book Rutherford written by John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows Rutherford's life and career as a scientist, the highlights of which included discovering alpha and beta radiation, receiving the 1908 Nobel Prize in chemistry and being the first to split atomic nuclei artificially.

Harriet Brooks

Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773563180
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Harriet Brooks written by Marelene F. Rayner-Canham and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-02-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After completing a master's degree at McGill University under Rutherford's tutelage, Brooks continued her post-graduate work at Bryn Mawr College and Cambridge University, eventually returning to McGill to work again with Rutherford. In 1904 she left Canada to work at Barnard College in New York City, and then with Curie in Paris. Brooks had a significant career as a nuclear scientist, but her success was hampered by the fact that she was a woman. She eventually married and left research. Her premature death at age fifty-six was probably related to her work with radiation.

Radioactive Transformations

Author : Ernest Rutherford
Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radioactive Transformations written by Ernest Rutherford and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1906 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radioactive Transformations by Ernest Rutherford, first published in 1906, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

The Strangest Man

Author : Graham Farmelo
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571250076
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)

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Download or read book The Strangest Man written by Graham Farmelo and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2009-01-22 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael Frayn The Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, he was also pathologically reticent, strangely literal-minded and legendarily unable to communicate or empathize. Through his greatest period of productivity, his postcards home contained only remarks about the weather.Based on a previously undiscovered archive of family papers, Graham Farmelo celebrates Dirac's massive scientific achievement while drawing a compassionate portrait of his life and work. Farmelo shows a man who, while hopelessly socially inept, could manage to love and sustain close friendship.The Strangest Man is an extraordinary and moving human story, as well as a study of one of the most exciting times in scientific history. 'A wonderful book . . . Moving, sometimes comic, sometimes infinitely sad, and goes to the roots of what we mean by truth in science.' Lord Waldegrave, Daily Telegraph