Author : John Cox
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ISBN 13 : 9781330457665
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (576 download)
Book Synopsis Beyond the Atom (Classic Reprint) by : John Cox
Download or read book Beyond the Atom (Classic Reprint) written by John Cox and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Beyond the Atom This Essay is an attempt to tell in short compass the romantic story of the discoveries which within the last decade have led us beyond the atom. The great authorities and storehouses of fact are, of course, the books of Rutherford and (recently) Mme Curie on Radioactivity. Excellent statements of the main points are to be found in Strutt's Becquerel Rays, and Soddy's Interpretation of Radium. I have drawn upon all of them; upon the original papers in the current scientific periodicals; and also on my happy memories of those exciting times when for nine years I was privileged to witness at close quarters and discuss from day to day the work achieved by my friend and colleague Professor Rutherford in the Macdonald Physics Building of McGill University, Montreal, of which I was Director. Nor must I fail to express my special gratitude to Professor Rutherford for unstinted help and criticism while the work was passing through the press, without which, indeed, it could have had little value as an account of a subject still rapidly growing under his hands. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.