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Grade 9 Up-An introduction to the life and times of the great physicist from his birth in New Zealand in 1871 to his death in 1937. Rutherford's contributions include inventing a detector for electromagnetic waves, creating the disintegration theory of radioactivity, and, first and foremost, discovering the basic structure of the atom. He received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1908 and worked on methods of locating submarines during World War I. The book includes numerous captioned, black-and-white photographs of Rutherford, his colleagues, and their laboratories and equipment. Sidebars and diagrams help to explain the many complex principles and equations. The book covers Rutherford's research in fine detail as well as that of many of his colleagues including Hans Geiger, Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, and J. J. Thomson. The author has finely interwoven the political and social context of the time into the significance of his subject's contributions in this authoritative work. A challenging read, it is best suited for serious students with some background in science.
Maren Ostergard, Bellevue Regional Library, WA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Maren Ostergard, Bellevue Regional Library, WA
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"The author has finely interwoven the political and social context of the time into the significance of the subjects contribution in this authoritative work." -- School Library Journal
"This series, Oxford Portraits in Science, seeks to provide middle and secondary students with biographies of major figures in the sciences. Told in easy-to-understand language, topics, such as nuclear physics, are deftly handled....A valuable addition to the biography section of a middle through high school library." --Catholic Library World
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A little more than a century before Ernest Rutherford's birth on August 30, 1871, Captain James Cook, the great explorer and geographer, made the first extensive survey of the coasts of New Zealand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uranium rays, radium emanation, nuclear atom, beta emission, alpha rays, alpha particle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Royal Society, United States, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Soviet Union, Explosion of Atoms, Harriet Brooks, John Harling, Lord Kelvin, The Center of Physics New!
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A little more than a century before Ernest Rutherford's birth on August 30, 1871, Captain James Cook, the great explorer and geographer, made the first extensive survey of the coasts of New Zealand. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uranium rays, radium emanation, nuclear atom, beta emission, alpha rays, alpha particle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Zealand, Royal Society, United States, Marie Curie, Ernest Rutherford, Soviet Union, Explosion of Atoms, Harriet Brooks, John Harling, Lord Kelvin, The Center of Physics New!
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- A Guide to the Elements (Oxford) by Albert Stwertka in Back Matter
- Cambridge Physics in the Thirties, by Hendry in Back Matter
- Rutherford: Simple Genius by David Wilson in Back Matter
- The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science by John L. Heilbron in Back Matter
- The Great Copernicus Chase and Other Adventures in Astronomical History by Owen Gingerich in Back Matter
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